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Book SynopsisAn accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death
Trade Review“A compelling collection of case studies about how technology breaks down when faced with the messiness of mortality.”—Gabriel Nicholas,
Washington Post“This vital, colorful ethnography shows that tech’s perverse ingenuity does not stop even at death. But tech thereby gets death wrong, mistaking as glitch the very condition of human flourishing.”—John Durham Peters, Yale University
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Death Glitch brilliantly reveals how death disrupts Silicon Valley’s best-laid plans: from early efforts to delete pages of dead Facebook users to startups for digital estate planning that die before their clients. An insightful and original take on the limits of techno-solutionism.”—Wendy Chun, author of
Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media
