Postmodern culture mirrors anterograde amnesia, clinging to old certainties while newness stays unnavigable
Evidence
No doubt this is another example of the struggle between the forces of deterritorialization and reterritorialization which Deleuze and Guattari argue is constitutive of capitalism as such. … 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: Postmodern nostalgia as inability to form new memory resonates with prior chapters’ claims about digital-native time as disconnected micro-slices. — connects to: Memory-loss films reflect cultural anxiety about identities being upgradeable like software; Digital-native generations experience time as disconnected micro-slices — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 53; Claims of a unified postmodern condition stem from American cultural amnesia favoring novelty — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 718 (+5 more)
Related
- Anterograde amnesia captures the postmodern inability to accept the new (similarity 0.95)
- Clip-show culture operates like anterograde amnesia, unable to make new memories (similarity 0.91)
- Software-like identity upgrading drives cultural obsession with memory disorders. (similarity 0.87)
- Pervasive cultural nostalgia signals an inability to make new memories (similarity 0.84)
- Memory has become a degraded repository of images and simulacra rather than authentic perception. (similarity 0.83)
- Postmodern nostalgia mode is an inability to imagine beyond the past. (similarity 0.83)
- Claims of a unified postmodern condition stem from American cultural amnesia favoring novelty (similarity 0.81)
- Postmodern subjectivity loses active historical consciousness and lives in a perpetual present. (similarity 0.80)
- Memory-loss films reflect cultural anxiety about identities being upgradeable like software (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Anterograde amnesia captures the postmodern inability to accept the new
#corroborates(0.90) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 122 - Claims of a unified postmodern condition stem from American cultural amnesia favoring novelty
#qualifies(0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 718 - Clip-show culture operates like anterograde amnesia, unable to make new memories
#expands(0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2426