Quantum Feminist Mnemotechnics:
The Archival Text, Digital Narrative and the Limits of Memory*

Carolyn G. Guertin
Senior McLuhan Fellow, UofT

 

Abstract

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Archive: Memory, Writing, Feminisms
i. Mnemotechnics and Quantum Feminisms
ii. The Arts of Memory: What Came Before
iii. Writing As a Mnemonic Technology
iv. Women's Writing and Feminisms

Chapter 2. The Matrix: Information Overload
i. Temporal Perspectives on Information Culture
ii. Feminist Dis/Orientations
iii. Space-Time Architectures: The Aesthetics of Memory
iv. Archival Structures and Fractal Subjectivities

Chapter 3. The Unfold: Immersion
i. Unfoldings: Bodies of Memory
ii. Transformance: The Body as Interface
iii. Hierophanies and Choric Space

Chapter 4. The Knot: Disorientation
i. Intervals: Where Visual Time Meets Virtual Space
ii. Knots in the Cosmos
iii. The Tangled Trajectories of Nomadic Logic
iv. Wanderlust

Chapter Five: Conclusion(s)

Works Cited

*The title of my dissertation has been altered for its second coming as a book. As dissertation, it was called Quantum Feminist Mnemotechnics: The Archival Text, Electronic Narrative and the Limits of Memory. The book version changes Electronic Narrative to Digital.

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