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.
| ISBN: | 9781324020783 |
| Publication date: | 7th August 2026 |
| Author: | Thomas S Mullaney |
| Publisher: | W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
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Research and information: general |
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.
How We Disappear features in the following genres: Research and information: general
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How We Disappear was written by Thomas S Mullaney and published by W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
How We Disappear has 240 pages
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