Designing for Death and Apocalypse: Theodicy of Networks and Uncanny Archives

Information Society

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 177-183

  Kera, Denisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

apocalypse; data; death; design; posthumanism; theodicy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877291613     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2013.777307     Document Type: Article

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