In Praise of Forgetfulness (Notes on Literature in Times of Crisis)

In The Language of New Media, published in 2001, Lev Manovich set out to sketch the new forms of an aesthetic he deemed susceptible to be born or reborn with the advent of digital media; his move then was to focus his analysis on the cinema for, according to him, not only had it somehow contributed to the slow advent of contemporary digital practices, but it also stood for their very paradigm and does still for this very reason. Among these new forms that came about with digital media— “new,”..