The Hauntology of the Infinite Now
Digital media carries no visible wear, so the past never reads as over. On hauntology, retromania, and a culture that struggles to finish anything.
Tag: ethics
5 posts
The Data Pyre
We built a civilisation whose every system defaults to save. The archive is perfect and the liturgy of erasure is gone. Deletion has to become a ritual.
The Right to Be Forgotten
The digital afterlife industry sells immortality and delivers undeadness. Finitude is not a defect in a person, and deletion should be the default.
Weaponized Silence
Silence is not an absence. It is the withdrawal of unpaid labour, and the reaction it provokes shows you exactly who was being subsidised.
The Bio-Age Trap
Insurers are swapping your birthday for a biological age score. The markers it reads are gendered, so menopause gets priced as accelerated decay.