Deja vu : aberrations of cultural memory / Peter Krapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krapp, Peter.

Series:

Electronic mediations ; v. 12.

Electronic mediations ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Déjà vu.

Memory (Philosophy).

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

0-8166-9586-5

OCLC:

476120138