Memory in the Twenty-First Century [electronic resource] : New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences /
Groes, Sebastian.editor.
This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the start of the twenty-first century via short essays written by scientists, scholars and writers. An experimental, multidisciplinary volume, it presents new research whilst recontextualising memory by investigating the impact of new conditions such as the digital revolution, climate change and an ageing population. It contains contributions by researchers at the foreground of new thinking about the human mind, such as N. Katherine Hayles and Claire Colebrook, as well as by writers such as Will Self, Maggie Gee and Adam Roberts. The interlinking work shows that the multiplicity of revolutions force us to reconsider our thinking about what it means to be a human being in the twenty-first century. Memory is increasingly becoming a collective, globally shared networking activity, whilst the role of the human mind is increasingly marginal, and taken over by machines. Human nature is rapidly changing.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword: From Causality to Correlation; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Memory in the Twenty-First Century; Part I Metaphors of Memory; Introduction to Part I; 1 Metaphors of Memory: From the Classical World to Modernity; 2 Proust, the Madeleine and Memory; 3 Proust Recalled: A Psychological Revisiting of That Madeleine Memory Moment; 4 The Persistence of Surrealism: Memory, Dreams and the Dead; 5 The Brain Observatory and the Imaginary Media of Memory Research
6 Memory and the Fictional Imagination: Creating Memories7 Misled by Metaphor; 8 Calling Gaia: World Brains and Global Memory; Part II Memory in the Digital Age; Introduction to Part II; 9 What's in a Brain?; 10 Will Self and His Inner Seahorse; 11 Navigational Aids in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation; 12 Living Digitally; 13 Death and Memory in the Twenty-First Century; 14 The Oceanic Literary Reading Mind: An Impression; 15 Memory and the Reading Substrate; 16 Memory, Materiality and the Ethics of Reading in the Digital Age; Part III Ecologies of Memory; Introduction to Part III
17 Time That Is Intolerant18 Climate Change and Memory; 19 Memories of Snow: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Re-Reading; 20 Writing Climate Change; 21 Against Nostalgia: Climate Change Art and Memory; Part IV Memory and the Future; Introduction to Part IV; 22 The Trace of the Future; 23 Simulation and the Evolution of Thought; 24 Imaginative Anticipation: Rethinking Memory for Alternative Futures; 25 Memory Is No Longer What It Used to Be; 26 'We Can Remember It, Funes, Wholesale': Borges, Total Recall and the Logic of Memory; 27 Remembering without Stored Contents: A Philosophical Reflection on Memory
Part V ForgettingIntroduction to Part V; 28 Remembering; 29 Directed Forgetting; 30 Remembrance in the Twenty-First Century; 31 The Body and the Page in Poetry Readings as Remembrance of Composition; 32 Our Plastic Brain: Remembering and Forgetting Art; 33 Amnesia and Identity in Contemporary Literature; 34 Amnesia in Young Adult Fiction; 35 Remembering Responsibly; Part VI Twenty-First Century Subjectivities; Introduction to Part VI; 36 Losing the Self? Subjectivity in the Digital Age; 37 Memory and Voices: Challenging Psychiatric Diagnosis through the Novel; 38 Rereading the Self
39 Neuroscience and Posthuman Memory40 The Confabulation of Self; 41 Malingering and Memory; 42 Trauma and the Truth; Conclusion: 'The Futures of Memory'; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the start of the twenty-first century via short essays written by scientists, scholars and writers. An experimental, multidisciplinary volume, it presents new research whilst recontextualising memory by investigating the impact of new conditions such as the digital revolution, climate change and an ageing population. It contains contributions by researchers at the foreground of new thinking about the human mind, such as N. Katherine Hayles and Claire Colebrook, as well as by writers such as Will Self, Maggie Gee and Adam Roberts. The interlinking work shows that the multiplicity of revolutions force us to reconsider our thinking about what it means to be a human being in the twenty-first century. Memory is increasingly becoming a collective, globally shared networking activity, whilst the role of the human mind is increasingly marginal, and taken over by machines. Human nature is rapidly changing.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Motion pictures—History.
Cognitive psychology.
Historiography.
Philosophy of mind.
Communication.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Film History.
Cognitive Psychology.
Memory Studies.
Philosophy of Mind.
Media Studies.