Memory in the Twenty-First Century: New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences

by Sebastian Groes (Editor)

List of illustrations
Foreword; N. Katherine Hayles
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Memory in the Twenty-first Century; Sebastian Groes
PART METAPHORS OF MEMORY
1. Metaphors of From the Classical World to Modernity; Corin Depper
2. Proust, the Madeleine, and Memory; Barry C. Smith
3. Proust A Psychological Revisiting of that Madeleine Memory Moment; E. Leigh Gibson
4. The Persistence of Memory, Dreams and the Dead; Jeannette Baxter
5. 'There Was Nothing Hidden That Might Not Be Revealed': The Brain Observatory and the Imaginary Media of Memory Research; Flora Lysen
6. Memory and the Fictional Creating Memories; Peter Childs
7. Misled by Metaphor; Nicholas Carr
8. Calling World Brains and Global Memory; Stephan Besser
PART MEMORY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
9. What's in a Brain?; Will Self
10. Will Self and his Inner Seahorse; Hugo Spiers
11. Navigation Aids in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation; Ineke van der Ham
12. Living Digitally; Wendy Moncur
13. Death and Memory in the Twenty-first Century; Stacey Pitsillides
14. The Oceanic Literary Reading An Impression; Michael Burke
15. Memory and the Reading Substrate; Adrian van der Weel
16. Memory, Materiality the Ethics of Reading in the Digital age; Sebastian Groes
PART ECOLOGIES OF MEMORY
17. Time that is Intolerant; Claire Colebrook
18. 'The Winters Were Colder and the Snows Deeper'; Mike Hulme
19. Memories of Nostalgia, Amnesia, Re-reading; Greg Garrard
20. Writing Climate Change; Maggie Gee
21. Against Antony Gormley, Ian McEwan and J. G. Ballard's Climate Change Art; Sebastian Groes
PART MEMORY AND THE FUTURE
22. The Trace of the Future; Mark Currie
23. Simulation and the Evolution of Thought; Joanna J. Bryson
24. Imaginative Rethinking Memory for Alternative Futures; Jessica Bland
25. Memory is No Longer What it Used to Be; Patricia Pisters
26. 'We Can Remember It, Funes, Wholesale': Borges, Total Recall and the Logic of Memory; Adam Roberts
27. Remembering Without Stored A Philosophical Reflection on Memory; Daniel D. Hutto
PART FORGETTING
28. Remembering; Larry R. Squire and John T. Wixted
29. Directed Forgetting; Karen R. Brandt
30. Remembrance in the Twenty-first Century; Peter Childs
31. Memory, Hither The Body and the Page in Poetry Readings as Remembrance of Composition; Holly Pester
32. Our Plastic Remembering and Forgetting Art; Heather H. Yeung
33. Amnesia and Identity in Contemporary Literature; Jason Tougaw
34. Amnesia in Young Adult Fiction; Alison Waller
35. Remembering Responsibly; Thomas F. Coker and Heather H. Yeung
PART TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SUBJECTIVITIES
36. Losing the Self? Subjectivity in the Digital Age; Claire Colebrook
37. Memory and Challenging Psychiatric Diagnosis Through the Novel; Patricia Waugh
38. Rereading the On Remembering Multiple Selves In and Out of Young Adult Fiction; Alison Waller
39. Neuroscience and Posthuman Memory; Robert Pepperell
40. The Confabulation of Self; Joanna J. Bryson
41. Malingering and Memory; Neander Abreu
42. Trauma and the Truth; Martijn Meeter
'The Futures of Memory'; Sebastian Groes
References
Index

428 pages, Paperback

First published January 6, 2016