Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

Unreality of Memory: And Other EssaysA literary guide to life in the pre apocalypse, The Unreality of Memory collects profound and prophetic essays on the Internet ages media saturated disaster coverage and our addiction to viewing and discussing the worlds ills. We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase Did you see? The feeling that were living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know

Covering a timespan stretching from Ancient Greece and Rome to the twentieth century

and the supernatural

a student suffering from tuberculosis

Responding to the unspeakable in real time

a master storyteller" (Boston Globe)

Describing the 'avalanche of social dislocation' of his time

a deadly serious dark comedy which invites us to view our reflections in the looking glass

from growing things to selling them exemplified the enormous social effort required to domesticate the profit motive and turn it into the practical foundation of civic life

One that demands the right to the city for everyone and the return of land and reparations for those who have been displaced

The Capitalist University surveys the history of higher education in the United States over the last century

With painstaking original research into primary sources

he has ridden the technological wave which has created extraordinary wealth and economic change