Forgetfulness: making the modern culture of amnesia

'Forgetfulness' is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past.

It traces the emergence in recent history of the idea that what is important in human life and work is what will happen in the future.

Francis O'Gorman shows how forgetting has been embraced as a requirement for modern existence and how our education, as well as life with fast-moving technology, further disconnects us from our pasts.

But he also examines the cultural narratives that urge us to resist our collective amnesia.