The Frailest Thing: Time, Memory, and Nostalgia↗

80 Nostalgia: The Third Wave “If the idea of progress has the curious effect of weakening the inclination to make intelligent provision for the future, nostalgia, its ideological twin, undermines...

81 Keeping Time, Keeping Silent What shape does a well ordered life take and how does one achieve such a thing?

82 From Memory Scarcity to Memory Abundance The most famous section in arguably the most famous book about photography, Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida , dwells on a photograph of Barthes’ recently...

83 If Nostalgia Is A Desire, What Does It Long For? When we’re not using nostalgia as a term of derision, we use it to name a twinge in the gut that somehow blends melancholic longing with happy...

84 Google Photos and the Ideal of Automated Documentation I’ve been thinking, recently, about the past and how we remember it.

85 Digital Media and Our Experience of Time Early in the life of this site, which is to say about eight years ago, I commented briefly on a story about five scientists who embarked on a rafting trip...

86 Don’t Romanticize the Present Steven Pinker and Jason Hickel have recently engaged in a back-and-forth about whether or not global poverty is decreasing.

87 Time, Self, and Remembering Online Very early on in the life of this blog, memory became a recurring theme.