I first read Edward Said’s last book in 2004, after Michael Punt Reminded me of it. Oops after Michael recommended it. But I totally disremembered the content of this book.
What drew me to re-reading it was my 73 birthday. In particular I remember the argument that Beethoven’s unfinished symphony is his most influential. Or was it Schubert ?
The book had very little to do with what I remember about it.
Disremembering is perhaps a form of selective remembering, and in my case mis-taken remembering. But this dis-rememory was particularly enticing in my current self-narrative about academic freedom.
About the Author:
Roger F. Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, with a specialty in extreme and ultraviolet astronomy, space instrumentation and optics. He served as director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence and was NASA Principal Investigator for the Extreme Ultraviolet Satellite project at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is also a publisher and editor in the new emerging research fields that connect the sciences and engineering to the arts, design and humanities. Since 1982, he has served as Executive Editor of the Leonardo Publications at MIT Press. He founded, and serves on the board of two nonprofits, ISAST in San Francisco and OLATS in Paris, which advocate and document the work of artists involved in contemporary science and technology.
He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology and Professor of Physics, at the University of Texas at Dallas and Directeur de Recherche for the CNRS in France. He serves as the Associate Director of ATEC, and founded the ArtSciLab in the ATEC program fall 2013.