The disabling of cultural memory
 

Crary 45: "The acceleration of novelty production is a disabling of collective memory, and it means that the evaporation of historical knowledge no longer has to be implemented from the top down. The conditions of communication and information access on an everyday level ensure the systematic erasure of the past as part of the phantasmic construction of the present."

> from Jonathan Crary's 24/7: Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep (2013)

> tagged with #information_age, #information, #novelty, #memory

> created September 26, 2025 at 9:03:11 AM


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