How Modernity Forgets book.

How Modernity Forgets book.

In a series of superb historical vignettes Connerton shows that this has occurred in three ways: through the dismantling of the city frontier in the nineteenth century and the growth of megacities in the twentieth, through the development of superhuman speed. and through 'the repeated intentional destruction of the built environment'.

Connerton's first book, How Societies Remember (1989), opened the .

Connerton's first book, How Societies Remember (1989), opened the discussion of collective memory (per Maurice Halbwachs and others) to include bodily gestures, finding in clothing, manners, musical performance, and other socially negotiated practices locii where memory is "silted" (to use his verb) into human corporeal consciousness and praxis

How Modernity Forgets (Paperback). Paul Connerton (author)

How Modernity Forgets (Paperback). Paul Connerton (author). This concise overview explores the concept of 'forgetting', and how modern society affects our ability to remember things. It takes ideas from Francis Yates classic work, The Art of Memory, which viewed memory as being dependent on stability, and argues that today's world is full of change, making 'forgetting' characteristic of contemporary society. Providing a profound insight into the effects of modern society, this book is a must-read for anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and philosophers, as well as anyone interested in social theory and the contemporary western world.

Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of 'forgetting', and how modern society affects our ability to remember things.

How Modernity Forgets. It takes ideas from Francis Yates classic work, The Art of Memory, which viewed memory as being dependent on stability, and argues that today's world is full of change, making 'forgetting' characteristic of contemporary society

Books related to How Modernity Forgets. The Spirit of Mourning. How Societies Remember.

Books related to How Modernity Forgets.

My friend Paul Connerton, who has died aged 79, was a cultural theorist internationally .

My friend Paul Connerton, who has died aged 79, was a cultural theorist internationally recognised for his work on social memory. He managed to succeed in his academic work despite being independent of any university and having limited financial means. His trilogy of studies of social and bodily memory – How Societies Remember (1989), How Modernity Forgets (2009) and The Spirit of Mourning (2011) – were significant building blocks for any study of the nature of time. At the end of his life it comforted him to receive the last rites of the church into which he was born and to which, by a circuitous route, he returned.