ISBN:
9781137520586
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 404 p)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. History
DDC:
500
Keywords:
Science
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Erinnerung
;
Gedächtnis
;
Künste
;
Erinnerung
;
Gedächtnis
Abstract:
This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the start of the twenty-first century in essays written by scientists, scholars and writers. It recontextualises memory by investigating the impact of new conditions such as the digital revolution, climate change and an ageing population on our world
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
6 Memory and the Fictional Imagination: Creating Memories -- 7 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
Abstract:
Introduction to Part III -- 17 Time That Is Intolerant -- 18 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
Abstract:
27 Remembering without Stored Contents: A Philosophical Reflection on Memory -- Part V Forgetting -- Introduction 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
Abstract:
37 Memory and Voices: Challenging Psychiatric Diagnosis through the Novel -- 38 Rereading the Self -- 39 Neuroscience and Posthuman Memory -- 40 The Confabulation of Self -- 41 Malingering and Memory -- 42 Trauma and the Truth -- Conclusion: 'The Futures of Memory' -- References -- Index
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DOI:
10.1057/9781137520586
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