Discarded Selves: Obsolescence in the Age of Presentism

Amid the rise of seductive, present-tense goods, the obsolete names what the present cannot assimilate: a forgotten one-hit-wonder, a now-unacceptable remark, or a teenage memory too awkward to reclaim. Yet it is precisely through these encounters with obsolete attachments that a different experience of time becomes possible. Discarded Selves shows that obsolescence is not only a condition imposed on objects and media but a temporal and affective logic internalized within the self. In cultu...