Of Instagrammatology

“Of Instagrammatology” starts with a trip to India I took my wife in 2019 as the starting point for meditation on experience of time passing. recount attempt finish reading Marcel Proust’s In Search Lost Time trip, having read first two thirds over thirty years ago, while mid-twenties. This allows me also reflect upon extraordinary technical and cultural changes that have taken place interval between these trips, especially terms communication. suggest there is connection how found myself using technologies such Instagram own concern lost instant, both are manifestations what Galen Strawson calls “episodic self,” which some Buddhist philosophy. Finally look at idea, Borges’ story “The Library Babel,” now instantiated online, every moment time, past future, is, sense, already describable infinity Cantor’s Aleph Zero