On vanishing mortality, dementia, and what it means to disappear
An estimated fifty million people in the world suffer from dementia. Diseases such as Alzheimer's erase parts of one's memory but are also often said to erase the self. People don't simply die from such diseases; they are imagined, in the clichés of our era, as vanishing in plain sig...
| Main Author: | Harper, Lynn Casteel (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Catapult,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- On vanishing
- Oh, Mexico
- Turning to fools and madmen
- The golden hour
- A great many seemings here
- She recognizes you
- When I have dementia
- Vanitas still life.