Death Glitch

Download or read book Death Glitch written by Tamara Kneese and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death "A compelling collection of case studies about how technology breaks down when faced with the messiness of mortality."--Gabriel Nicholas, Washington Post 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 entrepreneurial platform economy and highlighting the flaws of techno-solutionism. Big Tech has authority not only over people's lives but over their experiences of death as well. Ordinary users and workers, though, advocate for changes to tech companies' policies around death. Drawing on internet histories along with interviews with founders of digital afterlife startups, caretakers of illness blogs, and transhumanist tinkerers, the technology scholar Tamara Kneese takes readers on a vibrant tour of the ways that platforms and people work together to care for digital remains. What happens when commercial platforms encounter the messiness of mortality?

Download or read book Death Glitch written by Ken Douglas and published by Bootleg Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart surgeon Isadora Eisenhower is seventy-seven and dying of cancer when she is shot dead. She wakes in the morgue with the body of an eighteen year old. Something brought her back to life, made her young again and some very bad people want to find out how it happened. However, being poked and prodded and having her new life sucked out of her in the name of science and so a few wealthy people can have eternal life doesn't sit too well with Dr. Eisenhower, so to save herself, she goes on the run. But the men behind her pursuit are powerful and bring the forces of Homeland Security and the FBI after her and it seems no matter where she runs, they're a jump ahead of her and soon she'll have no place to hide.

Download or read book Death and the Girl Next Door written by Darynda Jones and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darynda Jones, author of The New York Times bestselling series that began with First Grave on the Right, brings us Death and the Girl Next Door, a thrilling Young Adult novel garnering high praise and early buzz from major authors Ten years ago, Lorelei's parents disappeared without a trace. Raised by her grandparents and leaning on the support of her best friends, Lorelei is finally beginning to accept the fact that her parents are never coming home. For Lorelei, life goes on. High school is not quite as painful as she thinks it will be, and things are as normal as they can be. Until the day the school's designated loner, Cameron Lusk, begins to stalk her, turning up where she least expects it, standing outside her house in the dark, night after night. Things get even more complicated when a new guy—terrifying, tough, sexy Jared Kovach—comes to school. Cameron and Jared instantly despise each other and Lorelei seems to be the reason for their animosity. What does Jared know about her parents? Why does Cameron tell Jared he can't have Lorelei? And what will any of them do when Death comes knocking for real? Thrilling, sassy, sexy, and inventive, Darynda Jones's first foray into the world of teens will leave readers eager for the next installment. "Unique, witty, and touching—I LOVED THIS BOOK!" —P.C. Cast, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Night Series

Download or read book Death, Doom, and Detention written by Darynda Jones and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones's Death, Doom and Detention, the normal part of Lorelei MacAlister's life didn't just slip away quietly the day Jared Kovach came to town. Nope. The normal part of her life shattered. It exploded. It burst into a gazillion shards of fleeting light. It went out with a bang. Goodbye normal. Hello dark and eerie. While her best friend, Brooklyn, is focusing all of her energy on helping Lorelei hone her abilities, Lorelei is dealing with the reality that Satan's second in command has taken up residence inside her body. Oh, and the fact that she has a crush on the Angel of Death. But what a beautiful death it is. If those weren't bad enough, something sinister has come to town and it wants nothing more than to hear Lorelei's dying breath as it strangles it out of her. Thank goodness the gang has a supernatural champion. But what happens when the only being who can save them switches sides midstream? How can a group of misfits capture one of the most powerful beings ever created? And will they find out how to bring Jared back to them before it's too late?

Download or read book JAMP© and The Resolution OF The Glitch written by Dr. Lahab Al-Samarrai and published by Lahab Al-Samarrai. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture the scene: You’re having a run-of-the-mill day, doing your grocery shopping, when someone says something directed toward you and your children who are whining about something or another for the hundredth time that day. You’re overwhelmed, but those words catch your attention immediately. You’re triggered – fuming on the inside like a boiling cauldron waiting to explode. This isn’t uncommon for you as you regularly find yourself in a reactive state. Whether it’s past trauma or an unpleasant experience that makes you revisit this triggered frame of mind, you often find yourself feeling powerless. You’re angry, annoyed, afraid, sad, or just downright overwhelmed with all the mental chatter that you deal with on a regular basis. You’re living in the glitch. The truth of the matter is that we all have a glitch that we contend with. These patterns of reactivity that then lead to certain behaviors keep us stuck in a circle instead of allowing us to move through a natural spiral. One where we can revisit past pain without getting sucked back in. One where we can see our past experiences through a different lens. In JAMP© & The Resolution of The Glitch, we’ll be walking you through the steps to: · Identify the glitch; · Acknowledge what it’s tied to; · Work through it using the principles of JAMP©. You don’t have to sit in neutral for the rest of your life. You can unlearn certain ways of dealing with trauma – both the original trauma and the self-induced trauma that occurs when you relive the past. Many people will spend their entire lives living in a memory of what was and trying to make sense of it. They essentially miss out on their present and their entire future by weighing themselves down with this mental baggage. Here’s the reality: · You didn’t deserve what happened to you that made you this way; · You probably had no control over what happened in your past; · You DO have control over what you do next. Come with us and let’s take your power back. The future is yours to create without the immense weight of The Glitch.

Download or read book The Glitch written by Ramona Finn and published by Relay Publishing. This book was released on with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So good!! I love the plot and character structure!! AWESOME!!! It deserves a place in the same shelf as the Hunger Games and Divergent series!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!! Can't wait for the Empties!!" - Katherine Atkins "A must read for people looking for a creative Sci-Fi plot and interesting characters. Waiting impatiently for the next book!" - Uma (Books, Bags and Burgers). On the brink of extinction, being human means more than just surviving. In Lib’s world, it’s dangerous to deviate from the norm. In fact, for someone who doesn’t live up to the Artificial Intelligence’s standards, it’s practically a death sentence. Lib learns this the hard way when she wakes up in a barren wasteland, with her memories erased, and only one thought lodged in her mind: “It’s all my fault.” Lib is a Glitch—an imperfect human component of the utopian world called the Norm. Now she’s thrown out, Lib will be forced to team up with another Glitch, Raj, and the mysterious Rogue Wolf and his clan to survive. Wolf only cares about the survival of his group, but Raj thinks they can hack the A.I. and change the Norm for the better. Now, Lib will have to decide which path to choose—whether to go with striking loner Raj or stay with Wolf and his tight-knit group. Her heart is drawn to both, but she’s carrying a deadly secret that could jeopardize them all. Will she be able to save her newfound family and stop the A.I. before it’s too late?

Download or read book The Task of Philosophy in the Anthropocene written by Richard Polt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called anthropocene is one of the most widely discussed concepts in philosophy and critical theory at the moment. This volume takes a broad historical view of the topic, bringing together high profile theorists, including Luce Irigaray and Adrian Parr, providing a platform for highly original work in this important and timely field.