Techno-Prosthetic Romantic Futurism

The Book of Thoth--now online!

Mnemonic Apocalypse! Data Storage so complete it will contain every written document Romanticism ever produced. Search protocols so nimble they will seek and sequester the smallest meaningful unit of information. Thoth offered writing to Ammon as memory perfected. Ammon rejected Thoth's gift as memory destroyed. The double bind of data storage: the life it memorializes it dissolves. [1]   Archivalism is bad memory. How then to digitize Romanticism without diffusing the liberty, fraternity, and equality it celebrates?


Notes

1. See Derrida Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, trans. Eric Prenowitz (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1975).


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