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BOOK REVIEW Edited by David E. Balk

Life is but a digital memory

A review of Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age by Davide Sisto. (Trans. Alice Kirgariff). Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2021. 160 pp. (ISBN: 13: 978-1-509-54503-2). $64.95. Reviewed by Illene Noppe Cupit.

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