a review of mckenzie wark’s the beach beneath the street, and an interview with the author

If the spirit of an age is to be recalled and made “current,” then that currency can’t be crudely cashed out in a linear logic of actors and actions, causes and cases in point. No, we need a new model of memory, one that keeps its objects perpetually “in play,” not isolating “prominent figures” from the movement that moved them, or parsing out concepts in pockets of studious usefulness. Situations are fleeting and changeable things, and “they call for a different kind of remembering.”

read the review at Bookslut

read the interview at 3:AM Magazine