Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death

Since the internet’s earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just as people do. Death disrupts technologists’ plans for platforms. It reveals how digital production is always collaborative, undermining the entrepreneuri...