Memory
Subtitle: encounters with the strange and the familiar
By: John Scanlan
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781780232249; 9781780231785
Subjects: Memory (Philosophy); Identity (Psychology); Home; Psychological aspects; PHILOSOPHY; Movements; Humanism
Description: When we think of getting older, we know we will slowly lose more and more of our memory-and with it, our sense of where we belong and how we connect to others. We might relax a little if we considered the improvements in computer data storage, which may lead us into a future when the limits of our memory become less constricting. In this book, John Scanlan explores the nature of memory and how we have come to live both with and within it, as well as what might come from memory becoming a process as simple as retrieving and reading data. Probing the ways philosophers look at me.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Memory: Encounters with the Strange and the Familiar; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; I. Pasts; II. Presences; III. Ecologies; Conclusion; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index.