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Elisa Gabbert
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April 2008
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The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
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2020
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3 editions
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The Word Pretty
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2018
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4 editions
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The Self Unstable
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2013
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Normal Distance
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2022
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3 editions
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The French Exit
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2010
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2 editions
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L' Heure Bleue
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2016
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2 editions
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That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness
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2008
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Thanks for Sending the Engine
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2007
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2 editions
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The Kind of Beauty That Has Nowhere to Go
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2013
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Draft: the Journal of Process: Issue Five
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Elisa’s Recent Updates
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"like a conversation with an interesting person."
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"Loved this book.
Will definitely re-read and recommend. Intersects memory, time, disaster, climate crisis, media. Chilling as a pandemic and climate crisis read in terms of disaster reactions and response. " |
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"A most delightful collection of essays that examine our role in the hyper-informed world and connect contemporary experiences in new ways, rethinking meaning-making for the 21st century. "
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"this book is a really rewarding intellectual experience. the essays are about living in a world of pain and recall: recent and past disasters, happiness, memory, empathy, perception.
these are not personal essays per se, yet these highly researched t" Read more of this review » |
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“Often, when something bad happens, I have a strange, instinctual desire for things to get even worse—I think of a terrible outcome and then wish for it. I recognize the pattern, but I don’t understand it. It’s as though my mind is running simulations and can’t help but prefer the most dramatic option—as though, in that eventuality, I could enjoy it from the outside.”
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
“As the French cultural theorist Paul Virilio famously said, “The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.”
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
“These seem to be real questions we're wrestling with - where do I focus my anxiety so that I can feel like a good citizen in an anxious society? We believe we need to worry about the right problems, even if we can't solve them.”
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
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