Digital Memory: Intimate Demons and the Uncanny Archive

Our point of departure will be Silvana Mandolessi's (2023) chapter "Is digital memory our new demon? Notes on surveillance and vulnerability," which provocatively reframes our relationship with digital technology. Building on her insights, we'll explore emerging research frontiers at the intersection of digital media and memory studies. We aim to move beyond the familiar tropes of surveillance to instead pose questions of affect, intimacy, and the uncanny, including: 

- In what ways does digital memory "possess" us, shaping our subjectivities and vulnerabilities? 
- How can we theorise the affective rifts caused by our digital doppelgängers (digital traces)?
- How does the "intimate uncanny" of digital memory reshape private lives and familial archives?
- What happens when algorithms resurrect forgotten relationships, past traumas or other material that fractures our sense of a coherent self?