Digital Graveyards

When I last searched the name of a real person, a name which only came to me in missing posters and pleas for a safe return, a name which came to exist in my mind that day as a result of something very raw and real and human, I was presented some of the most clinical and fundamentally in-human writing I’ve ever read. The uncanniness and insensitivi... See more

Surely enough, upon Inspect Element inquiry, most of these sites were running multiple third-party cookies, collecting the data of their visitors and selling their personal information. It is not enough for these websites to depersonalize the missing and deceased, reducing their names into analytic benchmarks; website visitors themselves become met... See more

And, in an act of very human selfishness, I have a tendency to type the names of these half-strangers into my search bar and hit return, an anti-social urge to answer the very human question: What happened? One of the great intimacies of the internet is the ability to ask the questions which would be too inappropriate or too rude or too personal to... See more

Speaking with friends my age, usually the ones who were equally unathletic and unpopular and thus inundated with the content of the grotesque, we share a desire to actively re-sensitize ourselves to the tenderness of human experience.