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Memory in the twenty-first century
new critical perspectives from the arts, humanities, and sciences
Abstract
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.
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memory in the twenty-first century
pp.1-13
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_1from the classical world to modernity
pp.27-37
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_2a psychological revisiting of that madeleine memory moment
pp.42-50
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_4memory, dreams and the dead
pp.51-56
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_5pp.57-62
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_6creating memories
pp.63-66
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_7world brains and global memory
pp.70-75
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_9pp.103-107
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_12an impression
pp.119-124
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_15pp.130-137
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_17nostalgia, amnesia, re-reading
pp.163-169
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_20climate change art and memory
pp.175-187
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_22rethinking memory for alternative futures
pp.208-212
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_25Borges, total recall and the logic of memory
pp.218-228
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_27a philosophical reflection on memory
pp.229-236
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_28pp.271-275
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_32remembering and forgetting art
pp.276-279
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_33subjectivity in the digital age
pp.307-315
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_37challenging psychiatric diagnosis through the novel
pp.316-324
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_38Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2016
Pages: 346
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-56642-6
ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-52058-6
Full citation:
Groes Sebastian (2016) Memory in the twenty-first century: new critical perspectives from the arts, humanities, and sciences. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.