False narratives
“I never wanted to be a baseball kid,” my friend’s college-aged son told her this year, although not for the first time. By senior year, he…
Memory
Essays, interviews and ideas from New Philosopher on Memory.
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Memory machines
Machines have memory, but do they remember? To be human is to have a rich relationship with time: to blur the self across imagined futures, pasts,…
Tricks of memory
Memory is a primary and fundamental faculty, without which none other can work; the cement, the bitumen, the matrix in which the other faculties are embedded;…
13 questions: Anna Reynolds
What would you never do, no matter the price? Work for someone who causes harm to others. What is the most important part of your education?…
Memory and imagination
Zan Boag: I’d like to start with something that seems to be a cornerstone of your work: the relationship between remembering the past and imagining the…
Access to the past
I recall as a four-year-old in the mid-1960s being taken to a studio in a department store and given a ball to play with. This was…
