Profile
**On leave Fall 2025/Spring 2026**
Farman is Associate Professor of听听at 麻豆传媒色情片 for Social Research. Professor Farman is interested in secularization processes, especially in relation to post-humanism, technology and aesthetics. His previous ethnographic research focused on transhumanist projects in the US attempting to achieve immortality through cryonics, mind uploading and biogerentology.
He is now working alongside the Shipibo Conibo Xetebo organizations on projects of indigenous autonomy in the Peruvian Amazon.听
His latest book,听听(University of Minnesota Press) was published in April 2020. His first book was听, an extended essay on movement and migration. He is founder of听 Art Space Sanctuary and founder/president of the Shipibo Conibo Center, NY.
He has taught Anthropology at Bard College, SUNY Purchase, Hunter College and Princeton. As part of the artist duo caraballo-farman he has exhibited internationally, including at corrupt institutions such as the Tate Modern (UK), and MoMA/PS1 (USA), and received several grants and awards, including Guggenheim and New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships.听
Degrees Held
PhD 2012, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Recent Publications
Books
2020. On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.听
2012. Clerks of The Passage: An Essay in Movement. Montreal: Linda Leith Publishing, Inc.听(French Translation, Les Lieux du Passage, 2016)
1994. Sexual Artifice. Co-editors, Ann Kibbey, Abou Farman, K. Short. New York: New York University Press.
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Academic Publications听(Peer Reviewed Book Chapters)
Forthcoming. 鈥淏iological Infinitude: The Decoupling of Chronology and Biology鈥.听In The Cambridge Handbook of the Anthropology of Death, eds. Ruth Toulson and Sarah Wagner. Cambridge University Press.
Forthcoming, with Volkan Eke and William Scarlett. 鈥淰irtually Spiritual: From Secular Ambiguities to Ontological Opportunities.鈥 Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Body, ed Andrea Jain. Oxford University Press.听
2022. 鈥淭erminality: Technoscientific Eschatology in the Anthropocene.鈥 In The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the 21st Century, eds. Shannon Dawdy and Tamara Kneese
SAR /University of New Mexico Press.听
2020. 鈥淐osmos.鈥 In Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon, edited by听Cymene Howe,听Anand Pandian. Punctum Books.
2018. 鈥淒eath and the Infinite: Cryonics as Secular Eschatology.鈥 In Wiley Companion to the Anthropology of Death, ed. ACGM Robben. New York: Wiley听
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Academic Publications (Peer Reviewed Articles)听
鈥.鈥 In The Cambridge听Encyclopedia of Anthropology听
鈥淢ind Out of Place: Transhuman Spirituality.鈥 Journal of the American Academy of Religion. March 2019, Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 57鈥80 (2019)
鈥淢easures of future health from the nonhuman to the planetary: An introductory essay,鈥 co-written with Richard Rottenburg. Medicine Anthropology Theory,听 Special Issue: Measures of Future Health, co-edited by Richard Rottenburg and Abou Farman, 6(3): 1鈥28. (2019)
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"Terminality,"听Social Text, vol. 31, iss. 2, pp. 93-118 (2017).
"Informatic Selves," Gergely Mohacsi, ed., Ecologies of Care: Innovations Through Technologies, Collectives and the Senses, (Osaka University Press, 2014).
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"Re-enchantment Cosmologies; Mastery and Obsolescence in an Intelligent Universe," Anthropological Quarterly, (2012).
Research Interests
Religion & Secularism, Science & Technology, Death & Dying, Aesthetics & Expressive Culture, Indigenous Autonomy.
Awards And Honors
Guggenheim Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship