Dementia is defined clinically as the loss of cognitive functioning. Patients can be judged well and discharged from hospitals, but clinical notes never fully catalogue the havoc wracked by the effacement and distortion of memory. I was fascinated by the form of the burning haibun, in leveraging erasure to crystallize meaning. In contrast, the advent of cloud technology is a retaliation against the impermanence of memory and life. What does it mean to “pdf” the body, to incessantly catalogue life? With the certainty of decay, to what extent do we possess agency in determining our own patient histories?

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