Fiction beyond the grave

Guppies reproduce from beyond the grave.

GUPPIES REPRODUCE FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE Humans can be forgiven for assuming that successful reproduction requires both partners to be alive. Amazingly, this isn’t the case for the Trinidadian guppy. Under laboratory conditions, female guppies are able to store sperm for up to a year, potentially allowing them to produce offspring even if the males are no longer around. However, several other st...

Beyond the Grave –The Use and Meaning of Human Body Parts: A Historical Introduction

Beyond the Grave: Facebook as a Site for the Expansion of Death and Mourning

Online identities survive the deaths of those they represent, leaving friends and families to struggle with the appropriate ways to incorporate these identities into the practices of grief and mourning, raising important questions. How are practices of online memorialization connected to conventional rituals of grief and mourning? What is the role of online digital identity postmortem? How do t...

Beyond the Grave: Facebook as a Site for the Expansion of Death and Mourning Introduction

Online identities survive the deaths of those they represent, leaving friends and families to struggle with the appropriate ways to incorporate these identities into the practices of grief and mourning, raising important questions. How are practices of online memorialization connected to conventional rituals of grief and mourning? What is the role of online digital identity post-mortem? How do ...

Reality Play: Documentary Computer Games Beyond Fact and Fiction

Computer games such as JFK Reloaded and 9-11 Survivor not only aim at an accurate documentation of particular events—such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Twin Towers attack—but also at the playful re-enactment of these traumatic events. In this article, I discuss whether the phrase “documentary computer games” is useful in defining these games. These “docu-games” try to combine ...