Can we avoid repeating history? Can we understand our moment from inside the moment? With The Unreality of Memory, Gabbert offers a hauntingly perceptive analysis of our new ways of being and a means of reconciling ourselves to this unreal new world. These deeply researched, prophetic meditations question how the world will end-if indeed it will-and why we can’t stop fantasizing about it. In this new collection, acclaimed poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert explores our obsessions with disasters past and future, from the sinking of the Titanic to Chernobyl, from witch hunts to the plague. With the world teetering on the brink of the political, social, environmental and medical abyss, The Unreality of Memory is a book for our times. The Unreality of Memory collects provocative, searching essays on disaster culture, climate anxiety, and our mounting collective sense of doom. Gabbert candidly asks startling and unsettling questions about our view of human nature and the ways we are often complicit in the suffering of others. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase Did you see? The feeling that we’re living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gotten-and each new catastrophe distracts us from the last.
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