{"product_id":"fragments-of-an-infinite-memory-mael-renouard-9781681372808","title":"Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 Googling to find out what I'd been up to and where I'd been two evenings before, at five o'clock, since I couldn't remember on my own.\" So begins Ma l Renouard's \u003ci\u003eFragments of an Infinite Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 tries out 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 is also playful, ironic, personal, and formally adventurous, a book that withstands comparison to the best of Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mael Renouard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681372800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681372808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/09\/2021","brand":"Mael Renouard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050790809855,"sku":"9781681372808","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_10f768c0-e2c6-4446-b77e-174977c7e364.jpg?v=1685009263","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fragments-of-an-infinite-memory-mael-renouard-9781681372808","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}