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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452091103321

Autore

Krapp Peter

Titolo

Déjà vu [[electronic resource] ] : aberrations of cultural memory / / Peter Krapp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8166-9586-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Electronic mediations ; ; v. 12

Disciplina

128/.3

Soggetti

Déjà vu

Memory (Philosophy)

Memory - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-214) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Been There, Done That; 1. Secret Agents: Sigmund Freud in Reserve; 2. Future Interior: Walter Benjamin's Envelope; 3. Posthistoire in Ruins: Heiner Müller's Hydrapoetics; 4. Andy's Wedding: Reading Warhol; 5. Unforgiven: Toward an Ethics of Forgetting; 6. Screen Memories: Hypertext; 7. Wrapping It Up: Mummy Effects; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Referring to a past that never was, déjà vu shares a structure not only with fiction, but also with the ever more sophisticated effects of media technology. Tracing the term from the end of the nineteenth century, when it was first popularized in the pages of the Revue philosophique, Peter Krapp examines the genealogy and history of the singular and unrepeatable experience of déjà vu. This provocative book offers a refreshing counterpoint to the clichéd celebrations of cultural memory and forces us do a double take on the sanctimonious warnings against forgetting so common in our time. Disturb