{"id":1692,"date":"2017-05-04T07:56:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T11:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2017-05-04T07:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T11:56:04","slug":"death-post-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/2017\/05\/04\/death-post-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Post Digital Age?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although we have talked about death in this digital age we are in now all semester, it is interesting to now think about post-digital age death. While it might not be a true visualization of future generations and how their deaths are remembered, it is interesting to see how death is portrayed and people’s lives are remembered (or not) in\u00a0Station Eleven<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In flashbacks to when Kirsten is 15 and in her first year with the Symphony, we see a man that comes on too strong and is implied to have a want to assault her when she kills him. Two years later, Kirsten and the sixth guitar each kill a gunman in order to survive. For both lives she takes, Kirsten gets a little knife tattoo to remember them by.<\/p>\n

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Dagger Tattoos found here<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On page 296, Kirsten takes a third life, the life of an archer, while August takes his first life ever. The advice we read going through Kirsten’s head after seems to be pretty telling of how killing and death is seen in this post apocalyptic world: it alters you but you will survive.<\/p>\n

Survival is a main theme in the face of death in this post- digital age in Station Eleven<\/em>. Are tattoos and altered lives of the surviving the only remembrance a life receives or can potentially receive in that type of age? \u00a0\u00a0In the prophets old town there were the graves and all of those markers but s that truly remembering those who died if no one who stumbles upon those markers in the future knows who they were?<\/p>\n

We may say that there is so much oversharing and lives are wasted on the internet nowadays, but at least there is something to go back and see parts of their lives if someone dies in the digital age, unlike with Kirsten and her friends who merely have the tattoos and the memories of those who have died. Who’s version of death is better? I like to think the digital age gives us access to people’s lives and lets them leave a legacy and a digital fingerprint in a world where they otherwise wold be a forgotten grave marker on the outskirts of town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although we have talked about death in this digital age we are in now all semester, it is interesting to now think about post-digital age death. While it might not be a true visualization of future generations and how their deaths are remembered, it is interesting to see how death is portrayed and people’s lives … <\/p>\n

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