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

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction: Memory in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-25
Metaphors of Memory: From the Classical World to Modernity....Pages 27-37
Proust, the Madeleine and Memory....Pages 38-41
Proust Recalled: A Psychological Revisiting of That Madeleine Memory Moment....Pages 42-50
The Persistence of Surrealism: Memory, Dreams and the Dead....Pages 51-56
The Brain Observatory and the Imaginary Media of Memory Research....Pages 57-62
Memory and the Fictional Imagination: Creating Memories....Pages 63-66
Misled by Metaphor....Pages 67-69
Calling Gaia: World Brains and Global Memory....Pages 70-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-87
What’s in a Brain?....Pages 89-96
Will Self and His Inner Seahorse....Pages 97-102
Navigational Aids in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation....Pages 103-107
Living Digitally....Pages 108-112
Death and Memory in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 113-118
The Oceanic Literary Reading Mind: An Impression....Pages 119-124
Memory and the Reading Substrate....Pages 125-129
Memory, Materiality and the Ethics of Reading in the Digital Age....Pages 130-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-146
Time That Is Intolerant....Pages 147-158
Climate Change and Memory....Pages 159-162
Memories of Snow: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Re-Reading....Pages 163-169
Front Matter....Pages 139-146
Writing Climate Change....Pages 170-174
Against Nostalgia: Climate Change Art and Memory....Pages 175-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-197
The Trace of the Future....Pages 199-204
Simulation and the Evolution of Thought....Pages 205-207
Imaginative Anticipation: Rethinking Memory for Alternative Futures....Pages 208-212
Memory Is No Longer What It Used to Be....Pages 213-217
‘We Can Remember It, Funes, Wholesale’: Borges, Total Recall and the Logic of Memory....Pages 218-228
Remembering without Stored Contents: A Philosophical Reflection on Memory....Pages 229-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-249
Remembering....Pages 251-262
Directed Forgetting....Pages 263-267
Remembrance in the Twenty-first Century....Pages 268-270
The Body and the Page in Poetry Readings as Remembrance of Composition....Pages 271-275
Our Plastic Brain: Remembering and Forgetting Art....Pages 276-279
Amnesia and Identity in Contemporary Literature....Pages 280-285
Amnesia in Young Adult Fiction....Pages 286-291
Remembering Responsibly....Pages 292-297
Front Matter....Pages 299-306
Losing the Self? Subjectivity in the Digital Age....Pages 307-315
Memory and Voices: Challenging Psychiatric Diagnosis through the Novel....Pages 316-324
Rereading the Self....Pages 325-329
Neuroscience and Posthuman Memory....Pages 330-333
Front Matter....Pages 299-306
The Confabulation of Self....Pages 334-337
Malingering and Memory....Pages 338-342
Trauma and the Truth....Pages 343-346
Conclusion: ‘The Futures of Memory’....Pages 347-363
Back Matter....Pages 364-404