Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and
secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's
most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records
that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data
complex backs up and protects our most vital information against
decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and
government institutions whose power is also preserved in its
bunkers, infrastructures, and sterilized spaces. We the Dead traces
the emergence of the data complex in the early twentieth century
and guides readers through its expansion in a series of moments
when Americans thought they were living just before the end of the
world. Depression-era eugenicists feared racial contamination and
the downfall of the white American family, while contemporary
technologists sought ever more durable and denser materials for
storing data, from microetched metal discs to cryptocurrency keys
written in synthetic DNA. 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.
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