313. The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)
We’re joined by Tamara Kneese — author of Death G…
January 27, 20241h 30m
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Show Notes
We’re joined by Tamara Kneese — author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond — to discuss her work on how experiences of death and dying shape the internet, the afterlife promised by digital resurrection, the strange quest to solve death, the transhumanist urge to escape death, and the entropic decay of digital infrastructure.
••• Follow Tamara | https://twitter.com/tamigraph
••• Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
••• Memento Mori https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/memento-mori-kneese
••• Measuring Justice: Field Notes on Algorithmic Impact Assessments https://medium.com/datasociety-points/measuring-justice-field-notes-on-algorithmic-impact-assessments-c6cfeccc668d
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