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Fragments Of An Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet by Peter Behrman de S
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- ISBN-13
- 9781681372808
- Book Title
- Fragments Of An Infinite Memory
- ISBN
- 9781681372808
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Computers, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Fragments of an Infinite Memory : My Life with the Internet
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Subject
- Social, Internet / General, Personal Memoirs
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 11.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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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. "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 doing a Google search to find out what I had been up to and where I had been the previous evening, since my own recollections were confused." So begins Ma l Renouard's Fragments of an Infinite Memory , a provocative and elegant inquiry into life in a wireless world. 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. Here this young philosopher, novelist, and translator tests a series of conjectures on how human experience, especially the sense of self, is being changed by our continual engagement with a memory that is impersonal and effectively boundless. Renouard has written a book that is rigorously impressionistic, deeply informed historically and culturally, but also playful, ironic, personal, and formally adventurous, a book that stands with comparison with the best of Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681372800
ISBN-13
9781681372808
eBay Product ID (ePID)
248449905
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Fragments of an Infinite Memory : My Life with the Internet
Publication Year
2021
Subject
Social, Internet / General, Personal Memoirs
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Computers, Philosophy
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-025144
Reviews
"Using films, books, and personal experiences as touchstones, Renouard offers a thoughtful consideration not of the internet's properties or even its possibilities but how its very presence changes us as human beings. A pleasing metaphysical ramble through the nexus of self, emotion, memory, and experience in the digital age." -- Kirkus Reviews " Fragments of an Infinite Memory , translated beautifully from the French by Peter Behrman de Sinéty, is a meditation on the many ways that the internet has changed how we register, remember, and forget the past. . . This is not a how-to manual or a guide to overcoming internet addiction, nor is it a nostalgic paean to the analog days before the information superhighway. No, Renouard's book is something that we don't see enough of--a clear-eyed and not particularly sentimental look at the role played by the internet in our intellectual lives." --Kate Prengel, Words Without Borders "Maël Renouard turns cultural theory on its head: in his brave new world, it is the internet that meditates on Proust, not the other way round." --Tom McCarthy "Maël Renouard's zigzagging essay in search of time lost, time wasted--the time lost and wasted in the virtual world of the internet--is elegant, brilliant, and urgent." --Adam Thirlwell "Maël Renouard takes us on a conceptual adventure, meditating on what remains and what is forgotten and observing the progressive annexation of our interiority by the external and infinite memory that is the internet." -- Philosophie Magazine "Renouard is never less than fascinating." -- Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings "The French writer and translator Maël Renouard was born in 1979, which means that he--like this reviewer--belongs to the last generational cohort in human history to have known life both before and after the internet. In this thoughtful and erudite essay-memoir he reminisces fondly about the analogue era's fin-de-siècle, a halcyon world of snail mail, vintage cinema posters and uncluttered headspace." --Houman Barekat, TLS, "Using films, books, and personal experiences as touchstones, Renouard offers a thoughtful consideration not of the internet's properties or even its possibilities but how its very presence changes us as human beings. A pleasing metaphysical ramble through the nexus of self, emotion, memory, and experience in the digital age." -- Kirkus Reviews " Fragments of an Infinite Memory , translated beautifully from the French by Peter Behrman de Sinéty, is a meditation on the many ways that the internet has changed how we register, remember, and forget the past. . . This is not a how-to manual or a guide to overcoming internet addiction, nor is it a nostalgic paean to the analog days before the information superhighway. No, Renouard's book is something that we don't see enough of--a clear-eyed and not particularly sentimental look at the role played by the internet in our intellectual lives." --Kate Prengel, Words Without Borders "Maël Renouard turns cultural theory on its head: in his brave new world, it is the internet that meditates on Proust, not the other way round." --Tom McCarthy "Maël Renouard's zigzagging essay in search of time lost, time wasted--the time lost and wasted in the virtual world of the internet--is elegant, brilliant, and urgent." --Adam Thirlwell "Maël Renouard takes us on a conceptual adventure, meditating on what remains and what is forgotten and observing the progressive annexation of our interiority by the external and infinite memory that is the internet." -- Philosophie Magazine "Renouard is never less than fascinating." -- Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings, "Maël Renouard takes us on a conceptual adventure, meditating on what remains and what is forgotten and observing the progressive annexation of our interiority by the external and infinite memory that is the internet." -- Philosophie Magazine, "Using films, books, and personal experiences as touchstones, Renouard offers a thoughtful consideration not of the internet's properties or even its possibilities but how its very presence changes us as human beings. A pleasing metaphysical ramble through the nexus of self, emotion, memory, and experience in the digital age." -- Kirkus Reviews " Fragments of an Infinite Memory , translated beautifully from the French by Peter Behrman de Sinéty, is a meditation on the many ways that the internet has changed how we register, remember, and forget the past. . . This is not a how-to manual or a guide to overcoming internet addiction, nor is it a nostalgic paean to the analog days before the information superhighway. No, Renouard's book is something that we don't see enough of--a clear-eyed and not particularly sentimental look at the role played by the internet in our intellectual lives." --Kate Prengel, Words Without Borders "Maël Renouard turns cultural theory on its head: in his brave new world, it is the internet that meditates on Proust, not the other way round." --Tom McCarthy "Maël Renouard's zigzagging essay in search of time lost, time wasted--the time lost and wasted in the virtual world of the internet--is elegant, brilliant, and urgent." --Adam Thirlwell "Maël Renouard takes us on a conceptual adventure, meditating on what remains and what is forgotten and observing the progressive annexation of our interiority by the external and infinite memory that is the internet." -- Philosophie Magazine "Renouard is never less than fascinating." -- Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings "The French writer and translator Maël Renouard was born in 1979, which means that he--like this reviewer--belongs to the last generational cohort in human history to have known life both before and after the internet. In this thoughtful and erudite essay-memoir he reminisces fondly about the analogue era's fin-de-siècle, a halcyon world of snail mail, vintage cinema posters and uncluttered headspace." --Houman Barekat, TLS " Fragments of an Infinite Memory offers a series of thought experiments on the possibilities of online connectivity, winging the reader on flights of fancy that circle around the Internet's impact on academia, our social lives, and its near-limitless capacity to fuel both nostalgia and the search for what's new. It's allusive and full of unexpected digressions, structurally experimental and ironic." --Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books
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