Abou Farman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research. He is interested in secularization processes, especially in relation to technology and aesthetics. His ethnographic research has focused on technoscientific projects in the US attempting to achieve physical immortality. He is working on a book, Secular Immortal, examining three such “immortalist” strategies: cryonics, biogerontology, and artificial intelligence. His first book, Clerks of the Passage, is an extended essay on movement and immigration. Farman has taught at Bard College, SUNY Purchase, Hunter College, and Princeton. As part of the artist duo caraballo-farman, he has exhibited internationally, including at the Tate Modern, London, and PS1, NY, and received Guggenheim and New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships.