Why does technology obsessively seek to artificially enhance and expand our memory? We don't have to accept information overload and interconnectedness as the backbones of our age. Our most trusted organizations, schools, and businesses are increasingly burdened by institutionalized storage and an accumulation of knowledge capital. As this book shows, by incorporating forgetting into their strategies for change, they can evolve within this time of radical adaptation.Our fear of forgetting may be blocking a real understanding of how innovative thought forms in our mediated capitalism. Anti-inst.

• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Prologue
• An Introduction to the Academy of Forgetting
• To Forget Forgetting
• Forgetting and Deleting, Remembering and Storing
• Before the Academy
• The Academy of Projectors
• The Birth of an Anti-Institution
• The College of Sociology
• Beginning at the End
• The Architecture of the Academy
• Repurposing the Monad
• Where is the Monad?
• The Screen
• The Window Mirrors
• The Doorway as Event Horizon
• Orientation
• Horizontality
• Study in the Academy
• The Event as Study Term
• A Model of Attention
• Ignorant Instruction
• Faculty of the Academy
• The Individual Ontology
• Addressing the Academy of Forgetting
• Blanking the Space
• Beyond the Academy
• Artist PhDs
• Attention and Forgetting
• Working Forgetting
• Occupying the Institution
• Afterword
• InConclusion
• Postscript
• Cited Sources
• Acknowldgments
• About the Author