A deeply informed yet playful and ironic look at how the internet has changed human experience memory and our sense of self and that belongs on the shelf with the best writings of Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard. One day as I was daydreaming on the boulevard Beaumarchais I had the ideait came and went in a flash almost in spite of myselfof Googling to find out what Id been up to and where Id been two evenings before at five oclock since I couldnt remember on my own. So begins Mal Renouar