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    Immortality as a network of relationships. Experience of building a posthumous avatar on the lifenaut platform
    (Wydawnictwa AGH, 2019) Nowaczyk-Basińska, Katarzyna
    Based on an analysis of the American Lifenaut research project, I attempt to capture immortality created today as a network of relationships among human and non-human factors. Lifenaut was established in 2006 as a pioneering project in the field of creating posthumous digital avatars. The users involved in the experiment gather data on the www.lifenaut.com platform to retain their personality in a digitized form after biological death. Part of my work is reconstructive – I describe the assumptions of the American project and the main concepts associated with it, such as »mindclone«, »mindfiles« and »mindware«. In the second part I present theresults of my own avatar creation experiment and confront them with the sociological perspective of symbolic interactionism (G.H. Mead, H. Blumer) and relational sociology (B. Latour).