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Memory in the twenty-first century

new critical perspectives from the arts, humanities, and sciences

edited bySebastian Groes

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.

Details | Table of Contents

Introduction

memory in the twenty-first century

Sebastian Groes

pp.1-13

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_1
Metaphors of memory

from the classical world to modernity

Corin Depper

pp.27-37

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_2
Proust recalled

a psychological revisiting of that madeleine memory moment

E. Leigh Gibson

pp.42-50

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_4
Calling Gaia

world brains and global memory

Stephan Besser

pp.70-75

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_9
Memories of snow

nostalgia, amnesia, re-reading

Greg Garrard

pp.163-169

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_20
Imaginative anticipation

rethinking memory for alternative futures

Jessica Bland

pp.208-212

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_25
"We can remember it, funes, wholesale"

Borges, total recall and the logic of memory

Adam Roberts

pp.218-228

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_27
Memory and voices

challenging psychiatric diagnosis through the novel

Patricia Waugh

pp.316-324

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_38

Publication 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.