Dead Matter bridges important theorizations of death, the human corpse, and mediation. This book is a critical connecting point between seemingly disparate fields of study. -John Troyer, Deputy Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath In a deep, sophisticated, and riveting book, Margaret Schwartz shows us how corpses become focal points for collective ... Read moremeaning-in nation construction, in violence and martyrdom, and in the passion of fandom. In explaining how the dead circulate among the living, Dead Matter gives us the tools to better understand death as a social and communicative phenomenon, and, one hopes, build more thoughtful relations with the dead. -Jonathan Sterne, author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format and The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction Show Less