In this season, host Katherine Rowland engages with people questioning whether or not being human means we should die…or if residing ceaselessly is feasible.

WHAT: On Season 2 of Seeking, Katherine Rowland meets with members of a large and rising motion, life extension and transhumanist pioneers who consider they’ll use science and expertise to beat mortality. While a few of these concepts appear fairly on the market (e.g., compiling your consciousness on a chip and beaming it to the cosmos), it faucets right into a close to common feeling: a worry of the top. 

Season 2, Episode 1: CHURCH OF PERPETUAL LIFE
Bill Falloon has constructed an empire attempting to forestall loss of life—his personal and people of his followers. He has made thousands and thousands promoting and manufacturing dietary supplements and serving to join individuals to abroad medicine they consider will cease illness and switch again the clock. About a decade in the past, he based a group for immortalists, the place individuals congregate across the hope of residing ceaselessly. Katherine visits the Church of Perpetual Life to uncover whether or not these persons are placing their religion in science, or one thing else altogether. 

Season 2, Episode 2: THE FREEZATORIA
In 1948, when a wounded vet wrote a brief sci-fi story a couple of wealthy outdated man being frozen and resurrected in a distant future he sparked a whole motion: cryonics. For sixty years, researchers have been exploring strategies to freeze corpses, within the hopes that someday they are often revived and that the expertise might be there to rejuvenate their our bodies, remedy their sickness, or— barring that—add their consciousnesses to future robotic selves. It had at all times appeared like a fringe thought, unsupported by science and unlikely to ever be actually potential. Then, tech cash obtained concerned, and now the concept of awakening in an ideal future has began to shift into the mainstream. We hear from among the individuals making that occur.

Season 2, Episode 3: THE GRANDMOTHER OF TRANSHUMANISM
It’s the early Nineteen Eighties, and Nancie Clarke, a younger girl with some fairly radical concepts steps in entrance of the digital camera on her cable entry TV present “Transcentury Future,” and Natasha Vita More is born. Pretty and outspoken, Natasha was a part of a bunch of younger punks desirous to discover the thrilling techno-driven future they envisioned for humanity. But as advances in pc science began to push their concepts ahead, Natasha started to really feel sidelined within the very motion she helped create. For Natasha, getting older is just like the patriarchy, one other type of social oppression we must always all resist.

WHEN: New episodes of season 2 of Seeking premiere each Monday. 

WHO: Katherine Rowland is a journalist and the writer of “The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution.” She is the previous govt director and writer of Guernica and her work has appeared in Aeon, Outside, Psychology Today, The Guardian, and TIME, amongst different locations. She lives in Brooklyn NY.

WHERE: Listeners can comply with Seeking every week on all main podcast platforms, together with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. For extra data on the brand new podcast and all different Sony Podcast reveals, comply with @SonyPodcasts on Twitter and Instagram.