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History and Memory in the Age of the Search Engine

Justin Smith-Ruiu
Feb 07, 2021
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and in the salt chuckle of rocks
with their sea pools, there was the sound
like a rumour without any echo

of History, really beginning.

—Derek Walcott, “The Sea Is History”

1.

What is memory? I carried wit…

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