[Tracks C, M, S] For millennia, new media technologies have raised questions and concerns about memory and forgetting. This course explores the relationship between media and memory in relation to the following key questions: How and why have new media technologies so often been understood as a threat to memory? To what extent have philosophers, psychologists and neurologists adopted media technologies as metaphors to describe how memory and forgetting work? And finally, in a world where the past may appear to be forever present (e.g., in the form of digital media archives), will forgetting no longer be possible at all? Culling materials from philosophy, psychology, medicine, law, media theory and literature, students will read key works by Plato, Freud, Borges and Kittler among other writers. [Tracks C, M, S]