Memory: Encounters with the Strange and the Familiar probes the nature of a phenomenon we all too easily associate with inner, mental life, and reveals it to be both the source and consequence of the ways we are always remaking the external world as our home.

‘Scanlan argues that the digital revolution and . . . the surfeit of available past experience [it produces] threatens to overwhelm the present […] Memory: Encounters with the Strange and the Familiar poses a challenge to connect historical accounts of the reductive focus on individual memory as recall in the neurosciences to these broader sociocultural meanings of memory.’ — Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2015.