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Our lives are collections of information-from mundane official documents, poignant family photos, and random artifacts to the cues embodied in our genes. Never is this more evident than in the wake of a parent's death. Yet from all these elusive, even evanescent, data points, history is written and a future is made. This information is stored on clay tablets and wood pulp; in vinyl grooves, compact discs and magnetic patterns; and relayed over undersea cables and satellite cell networks. But all information decays. Everything that we put "in formation" eventually collapses into randomness.
In this wide-ranging examination of the micro and macro, world-renowned scholar Thomas S. Mullaney reflects on the deaths of his parents, and on how human lives "disappear". Lyrical and poignant, his erudite, inspiring meditation offers eye-opening insight on the miracle of existence, and on what it means to forge meaning from a chaotic universe.
Our lives are collections of information-from mundane official documents, poignant family photos, and random artifacts to the cues embodied in our genes. Never is this more evident than in the wake of a parent's death. Yet from all these elusive, even evanescent, data points, history is written and a future is made. This information is stored on clay tablets and wood pulp; in vinyl grooves, compact discs and magnetic patterns; and relayed over undersea cables and satellite cell networks. But all information decays. Everything that we put "in formation" eventually collapses into randomness.
In this wide-ranging examination of the micro and macro, world-renowned scholar Thomas S. Mullaney reflects on the deaths of his parents, and on how human lives "disappear". Lyrical and poignant, his erudite, inspiring meditation offers eye-opening insight on the miracle of existence, and on what it means to forge meaning from a chaotic universe.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781324020783 |
| ISBN-10: | 1324020784 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Mullaney, Thomas S. |
| Hersteller: | WW Norton & Co |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 217 x 149 x 23 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Thomas S. Mullaney |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.08.2026 |
| Gewicht: | 0,308 kg |
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