The Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material Was a Selfie
Good background on Chernobyl for when we talk about “dark tourism” in “Death in the Digital Age”
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Inside the Secret Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics
Perfect timing for this NYT article on contemporary mediums. Just yesterday in DIG 215 we were talking about the Fox sisters and their “spiritual telegraph” to the afterlife.
They Will Not Return
Possible Twine game to include on my Death in the Digital Age syllabus, with shades of Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains”
Atlantic article on the rise of exorcisms
Adding to my Death in the Digital Age class, where we’re already discussing demons and exorcism in the 21st century
Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever
Adding this to my “Death in the Digital Age” syllabus for the spring.
Battery death is the new horror film staple · kottke.org
Going to revisit this next semester for my Death in the Digital Age course