Thomas S Mullaney: How We Disappear, Gebunden
How We Disappear
- A Personal History of Information
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- Verlag:
- W. W. Norton & Company, 06/2026
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781324020783
- Artikelnummer:
- 12459696
- Umfang:
- 192 Seiten
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 23.6.2026
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Our lives are collections of information-from mundane official documents, poignant family photos, and random artifacts to the cues embodied in our genes. Never is this more evident than in the wake of a parent's death. Yet from all these elusive, even evanescent, data points, history is written and a future is made.
This information is stored on clay tablets and wood pulp; in vinyl grooves, compact discs, and magnetic patterns; and relayed over undersea cables and satellite cell networks. But all information decays. Everything that we put "in formation" eventually collapses into randomness.
In this wide-ranging examination of the micro and macro, world-renowned scholar Thomas S. Mullaney reflects on the deaths of his parents, and on how human lives "disappear." Lyrical and poignant, his erudite, inspiring meditation offers eye-opening insight on the miracle of existence, and on what it means to forge meaning from a chaotic universe.
