Noone is talking about this

[sufi]

thread about https://www.nyrb.com/products/fragments-of-an-infinite-memory which was a poor choice of title imho (or maybe translated weakly)

it should have been called "Noone is talking about this" since it contains many useful observations about how the internet affects us all

 

[woops]

thread about https://www.nyrb.com/products/fragments-of-an-infinite-memory which was a poor choice of title imho (or maybe translated weakly)

it's a very literal translation in fact

 

[sufi]

Here's a quote

When, in the dead of night, we go searching on YouTube for the music of ten, twenty, or
thirty years ago, we find that we have joined a community of lonely individuals leaving
the trace of an intense, ambiguous feeling, born of a reunion with time past that can
take place only because these moments have first been utterly lost: “This brings back so
many memories,” “Es waren Zeiten,” “Why gone so fast”. . . . The internet shows that
recollection has charted the path of technology—infinite distancing and preservation
and melancholy is the future of emotion.

 

[woops]

melancholy is the emotion of the future.
the future is the emotion of melancholy.
emotion is the melancholy of the future.