Tyranny of the Present
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: How is history transformed when human memory is externalized as data and stored on servers?For instance, if we Google the events of January 6, 2021, when insurrectionists, incited by Donald Trump's refusal to concede the 2020 presidential election, stormed the United States Capitol, in the hope of preventing Congress from certifying Joe Biden's election, what results will we get?Will the results of a search made in Manhattan be identical to ones made in Houston, or Berlin?Will the web pages included on a list generated today be identical to those that appear tomorrow?And if so, will the emerging consensus on what happened on January 6 and what it meant (if there is, or could be one) be based on empirical evidence, or merely on the number of times that any link has been clicked?Elsewhere, I
Source: The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
Author: David Joselit
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4401856039