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The fountain of youth has not been found yet; the human s dream of immortality maintains its current interest. The current rejuvenation endeavor of the humans reoccurs around a specific popular topic: Anti-Aging . This study presents that recent anti-aging discourse includes certain perceptions and assumptions about living and keeping alive which are peculiar to late modern times and innocent-looking suggestions of this discourse determine the ideal borders of aging body. It argues that anti-aging discourse redefines the meaning of age, transforms the aging process into a performative sphere…mehr

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The fountain of youth has not been found yet; the human s dream of immortality maintains its current interest. The current rejuvenation endeavor of the humans reoccurs around a specific popular topic: Anti-Aging . This study presents that recent anti-aging discourse includes certain perceptions and assumptions about living and keeping alive which are peculiar to late modern times and innocent-looking suggestions of this discourse determine the ideal borders of aging body. It argues that anti-aging discourse redefines the meaning of age, transforms the aging process into a performative sphere and reinterprets human temporality by narrating aging process with certain metaphors and represents the aging as a merely biological and controllable situation. To find out the peculiarity of the present war against aging, the author combines Foucauldian theory on the power over life and Sontag s approach to the metaphorical representation of illness . Under the light of these theoreticalsources the work presents a compelling cartography of the anti-aging s new body and lifestyle project which transforms our experiences and perceptions concerning our aging bodies.
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Nihan Mortas, MSc: Studied Political Science at Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Currently, she is a Doctoral Student at Sociology Department at Middle East Technical University.