The Blog Report: Technologies of Forgetting

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2005

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Saper, Craig. “The Blog Report: Technologies of Forgetting.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, no. 10 (2005). http://www.rhizomes.net/issue10/saper.htm.

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Abstract

Proust wrote to remember, Nietzsche to forget. Imagine the visual diagram of the boundary between the structure of remembrances and active forgetting. It does not appear blurry, but rather as a Mobius strip, a Kline bottle: a continuum. Forgetting depends on remembering something to forget. Remembering depends on finding something forgotten. Blogs and blogging now threaten to add yet another twist to this logic.