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Johanna Vollmeyer, Complutense University Madrid

Title: Time and Memory in the Postdigital Age

We are living in a postdigital age that is characterized by the profound entanglement of the analogue with the digital. They cannot be considered separate worlds any longer. Digital media are omnipresent in our everyday life and exert a strong influence on how we perceive and create time and eventually memory. Our mental schemes are significantly impacted by the massive use of digital media, and so is the way we access and construct the world. New Materialism provides us with a useful onto-epistomological framework which can help identify and understand these changes, also in the specific field of literary studies.
The growing digitization has a significant impact on our writing in general and specifically on the writing of artists. In this context it is of interest to my project how literature reflects on the growing digitalization of our world, and how literature is itself influenced by it.