Anterograde amnesia captures the postmodern inability to accept the new

Evidence

The memory disorder that is the correlative of this situation is the condition which afflicts Leonard in Memento, theoretically pure anterograde amnesia. Here, memories prior to the onset of the condition are left intact, but sufferers are unable to transfer new memories into long term memory; the new therefore looms up as hostile, fleeting, un-navigable, and the sufferer is drawn back to the security of the old. The inability to make new memories: a succinct formulation of the postmodern impasse… — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 122

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the earlier chapter claim about a generation born into digital micro-sliced media experiencing time as disconnected presents. — connects to: The new psychotropics defeated existing psychiatric vocabulary — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing…, 398; Postmodern culture mirrors anterograde amnesia, clinging to old certainties while newness stays unnavigable — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 122; Claims of a unified postmodern condition stem from American cultural amnesia favoring novelty — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 718 (+9 more)

Related

• Postmodern culture mirrors anterograde amnesia, clinging to old certainties while newness stays unnavigable (similarity 0.95)
• Clip-show culture operates like anterograde amnesia, unable to make new memories (similarity 0.89)
• Software-like identity upgrading drives cultural obsession with memory disorders. (similarity 0.88)
• Pervasive cultural nostalgia signals an inability to make new memories (similarity 0.82)
• Memory has become a degraded repository of images and simulacra rather than authentic perception. (similarity 0.82)
• Postmodern subjectivity loses active historical consciousness and lives in a perpetual present. (similarity 0.81)
• Postmodern nostalgia mode is an inability to imagine beyond the past. (similarity 0.81)
• Claims of a unified postmodern condition stem from American cultural amnesia favoring novelty (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Claims of a unified postmodern condition stem from American cultural amnesia favoring novelty #corroborates (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 718
• Clip-show culture operates like anterograde amnesia, unable to make new memories #exemplifies (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2426
• Belief in a ‘postmodern condition’ is American historical amnesia. #expands (0.82)
• Instantaneity collapses history into a permanent amnesiac present #exemplifies (0.80)
• Pervasive cultural nostalgia signals an inability to make new memories #corroborates (0.80) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 249
• Conceiving consciousness as in-itself makes past and present unreconnectable #complicates (0.75)
• Controlled experimental designs can isolate authoritarian memory and reasoning deficits #corroborates (0.75)
• Dementia is another way humans lose control of their carefully maintained identities #qualifies (0.72) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 138