Memory is not a thing that we call upon, it is an event that we
experience. Each time we speak, we do not access a memory, but
create a new memory - we compose a new memory event. Our memory is
a constant decomposition and recomposition process, and this
process, in many ways, is who we are. Our everyday communication is
governed by a complex cognitive process so innate in our
neurological composition that we rarely pause to consider it. Their
Synaptic Selves examines the cognitive shifts that memory events
force in our everyday language. It explores how authors like Samuel
Beckett and James Joyce interpret these types of events,
specifically discussing how spatialization and mapping affect
memory. For these authors, it is the failure of memory (and its
linguistic manifestation) that teaches us how we think. By looking
at these moments of failure or slippage in light of philosophers
like Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze we can come to understand
more fully the complex and elusive approaches through which these
authors deal with memory and its role in language. Only then can we
begin to examine the way we actually use language and read texts
today.
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