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We the dead : preserving data at the end of the world / Brian Michael Murphy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Brian Michael, author.
- Series:
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archives--Collection management--United States--History.
- Archives.
- Data centers--United States--History.
- Data centers.
- Data warehousing--United States--History.
- Data warehousing.
- Digital preservation--United States--History.
- Digital preservation.
- Records--United States--Management--History.
- Records.
- Storage facilities--United States--History.
- Storage facilities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Artfully written and packed with provocative ideas, this haunting book illuminates the dark places of the data complex and the ways it increasingly blurs the lines between human and machine, biological body and data body, life and digital afterlife.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: I Will Survive?
- The Mummy Complex
- Human Biochips in the Corporate Cyborg
- Explorers of Infrastructure
- Emergence of the Data Complex
- Backup Loops
- The Biogeochemistry of the Data Complex
- Otto Bettmann's Photos of Photos
- Chapter 1. Gas Chambers for Bookworms
- Infected Books
- Gassing Paper and People
- A Surgeon in the Library
- The Problem of Perishable Paper
- Arthur Kimberly's Dream of Hygienic Data
- Kleenex and Chlorine
- Archives without Archivists
- The Toxic Afterlife of Paper
- Chapter 2. We the Dead
- Technicolor Whiteness
- The Conception of Data Bodies
- The Book of Record
- The Typical American Family Contest at the Fair
- Thirty-Six Tons of Air
- The Backup Loop to Rule Them All
- Skyscrapers of Light
- Chapter 3. Bombproof Cavemen
- The Birth of Open Time Capsules
- Typical German and Japanese Cities
- The Bombsight Mirror
- Operation Time Capsule
- Two Hundred Suns
- My Career Is in Films?
- The Darlings of Doom Town
- Preservation Family from the Atomic War
- Something Like a Cloud
- Chapter 4. The Weight of a Cloud
- Fallout Forecasts
- Touring the Greenbrier Resort
- From Bunkers to Data Bunkers
- Buried Alive
- Desert Clouds
- In Algorithms We Trust
- Cellblocks for Data
- The Constellation of Dead Malls
- Chapter 5. The Satellite Graveyard
- The Last Pictures
- The Golden Record
- An Atomic Priesthood
- Digital Diamonds
- The Angel of History
- Rosetta Disks
- Physical Bitcoin
- Helium through Glass
- The Data Complex Dreams of Infinity
- Chapter 6. Save File as . . . DNA
- Digital Is Not Dead Yet
- The Cosmic Clean Room
- Mines of Ethereum in the Cloud
- Asteroid Gas Stations
- Clock of the Long Now
- Molecular Ticker Tape.
- The Next Version of the Universe
- Biochip Circuits, and Running from Crocodiles
- Epilogue: After Life
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 29, 2023).
- Previously issued in print: 2022.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908568-4-5
- 979-88-908568-5-2
- 1-4696-6828-9
- OCLC:
- 1319198397
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