The Ontology of Mixed Reality Agents Memorializing the Dead and Dying

Fisher, Joshua A.

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“…It is clear, then, how digital afterlife, as a concept, extends beyond death-related social practices and digital material. Digital afterlife intrinsically includes the dead, concerningeven constituting-their person (Stokes 2021, p. 117), thus warranting more consideration of postmortal privacy (Harbinja 2022), post-mortem identity and personhood (Fisher 2021;Meese et al 2015). Taking a philosophical stance regarding how the dead persist among the living, Stokes (2021, p. 83, emphasis in original) notes how "online personas are us rather than being representations of or about us" (see also Stokes 2015).…”

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Theorising Digital Afterlife as Techno-Affective Assemblage: On Relationality, Materiality, and the Affective Potential of Data

Harju

2024

Social Sciences

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In the ongoing academic discussion regarding what happens to our data after we die, how our data are utilised for commercial profit-making purposes, and what kinds of death-related practices our posthumous data figure in, the notion of digital afterlife is attracting increasing attention. While the concept of digital afterlife has been approached in different ways, the main focus remains on the level of individual loss. The emphasis tends to be on the role of posthumous digital artefacts in grief practices and death-related rituals or on data management issues relating to death. Building on a socio-technical view of digital afterlife, this paper offers, as a novel contribution, an understanding of digital afterlife as a techno-affective assemblage. It argues for the necessity of examining technological and social factors as mutually shaping and brings into the discussion of digital afterlife the notions of relationality, materiality, and the affective potential of data. The paper ends with ruminations about digital afterlife as a posthumanist project.

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Section: The Story So Far: Digital Afterlife As An Archive Of Memorie...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorising Digital Afterlife as Techno-Affective Assemblage: On Relationality, Materiality, and the Affective Potential of Data

Harju

2024

Social Sciences

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The Ontology of Mixed Reality Agents Memorializing the Dead and Dying

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Theorising Digital Afterlife as Techno-Affective Assemblage: On Relationality, Materiality, and the Affective Potential of Data

Theorising Digital Afterlife as Techno-Affective Assemblage: On Relationality, Materiality, and the Affective Potential of Data

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