Digital containment and its discontents.

This essay explores a set of existential risks that accompany digital storage capacities, devices, and promises: the anxious exhaustion of digital housekeeping; the disorientation of self-archiving; and the annihilating sense of loss that strikes when digital containment fails.

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Publicado en:History & Anthropology Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 42 - 49
Autor principal: Schüll, Natasha Dow
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2018
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Sumario:This essay explores a set of existential risks that accompany digital storage capacities, devices, and promises: the anxious exhaustion of digital housekeeping; the disorientation of self-archiving; and the annihilating sense of loss that strikes when digital containment fails.