I am become digital death, the destroyer of worlds

texts by Dr. Emily West and Stefan Schäfer ; contr. by Patty Jansen, Gilbert Sinnot

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Author(s)

Dr. Emily West and Stefan Schäfer, Patty Jansen, Gilbert Sinnot

Publication

Amsterdam : Stefan Schäfer, 2016

Scope

192 Pages, illustrated, 27 cm.

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S†ëfan Schäfer and Dr. Emily West present their long term project about digital death and the postmortem self in a print publication and on its digital afterlife digitalnecropolis.net. They link the physical end of life with a digital continuation. Lives that are increasingly lived online call for a new structure of dying and death. Digital and physical deaths need to be concurrent, and our physical bodies and digital lives can end discretely based on financial and existential needs. "Now I am become Death, The destroyer of worlds." is a quote from Robert Oppenheimer.

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Keywords

new media

Location

Cabinet 11 - 3: Technologie + Posthumanisme

Remarks

Incl. Bibliography