[Linganth] CaMP anthropology author interview - Kate Eichhorn

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Shuting Li interviews Kate Eichhorn about her new book, The End of 
Forgetting
on the CaMP anthropology blog.

If you are interested, you can find the interview here:

https://campanthropology.org/2021/03/29/kate-eichhorn-the-end-of-forgetting/ 
<https://campanthropology.org/2021/03/29/kate-eichhorn-the-end-of-forgetting/>

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:

Thanks to Facebook and Instagram, our childhoods have been captured and 
preserved online, never to go away. But what happens when we can’t leave 
our most embarrassing moments behind?

Until recently, the awkward moments of growing up could be forgotten. 
But today we may be on the verge of losing the ability to leave our 
pasts behind. In/The End of Forgetting/,*Kate Eichhorn*explores what 
happens when images of our younger selves persist, often remaining just 
a click away.

For today’s teenagers, many of whom spend hours each day posting on 
social media platforms, efforts to move beyond moments they regret face 
new and seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Unlike a high school 
yearbook or a shoebox full of old photos, the information that 
accumulates on social media is here to stay. What was once fleeting is 
now documented and tagged, always ready to surface and interrupt our 
future lives. Moreover, new innovations such as automated facial 
recognition also mean that the reappearance of our past is increasingly 
out of our control.

Historically, growing up has been about moving on—achieving a safe 
distance from painful events that typically mark childhood and 
adolescence. But what happens when one remains tethered to the past? 
 From the earliest days of the internet, critics have been concerned 
that it would endanger the innocence of childhood. The greater danger, 
Eichhorn warns, may ultimately be what happens when young adults find 
they are unable to distance themselves from their pasts. Rather than a 
childhood cut short by a premature loss of innocence, the real crisis of 
the digital age may be the specter of a childhood that can never be 
forgotten.


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