Fragments of an Infinite Memory
Fragments of an Infinite Memory A deeply informed, yet playful and ironic look at how the internet has changed human experience, memory, and our sense of self, and that belongs on the shelf with the…
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Fragments of an Infinite Memory
A deeply informed, yet playful and ironic look at how the internet has changed human experience, memory, and our sense of self, and that belongs on the shelf with the best writings of Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard. Renouard is old enough to remember life before the internet but young enough to have fully accommodated his life to the internet and the gadgets that support it. "One day, as I was daydreaming on the boulevard Beaumarchais, I had the idea--it came and went in a flash, almost in spite of myself--of Googling to find out what I'd been up to and where I'd been two evenings before, at five o'clock, since I couldn't remember on my own." So begins Ma l Renouard's Fragments of an Infinite Memory, a provocative and elegant inquiry into life in a wireless world.
Here this young philosopher, novelist, and translator tries out a series of conjectures on how human