As a matter of fact, to translate this into the language we use, which is a faculty psychology language – the two key faculties which stand between the objective and the subjective are memory and imagination. These are terms that go back again, as we mentioned before, to Leo the Thirteenth and nineteenth century. This was his promotion of Thomas Aq... See more

every livestream has the potential to generate lore. [through three main activities]... [1]Forming a semiosphere: developing a vocabulary of memes and shared references that became the semiotic ‘world’ of the livestream. This vocabulary wasn't just limited to concrete objects or templatized phraseology. It included complex abstractions and bespoke ... See more

We pray: ... “Remember me, O Lord, in Thy Kingdom.” The Frightful Path of Judas Fr. Stephen 4.17.2025

Memory and imagination are twins, in that they are both vulnerable to the distorting forces of great emotion

Touching Words: on Poetry in Memoir TJ Price 3.11.2025

I’m only beginning to dimly grasp the contours of this unfolding transformation, but some axioms for my personal philosophy of it are already clear.

Text and static images, “objectively” manipulated using chat-like tools, are relatively weak entry drugs for creating strong hive minds; much more potent stuff is coming

“Intelligence” as such does not... See more

most of the memory a system uses isn’t its own. ... The same is true of humans. Language, culture, norms, rituals, documents—all of these constitute a collective memory space we navigate constantly. Our own memory is just one small node in a vast network of external scaffolding—books, browsers, friends, feeds. ... Shared memory is the terrain; boun... See more

In the Sunday Liturgy, Orthodox Churches that follow Slavic practice, sing, “Remember us, O Lord, when you come into Your Kingdom.” There is within that prayer the subtle suggestion that such memory is the only one that matters.

And They Disappeared – Extreme Humility Fr. Stephen 4.3.2025

In our Orthodox prayers for the departed, we pray, “Make their memory to be eternal.” It is a prayer that asks God to do what He has already promised to do (which is typical of most prayers). ... God not only remembers us (described in such a graphic manner), but remembers us in our suffering. Those same wounds do not disappear in the resurrected C... See more

This suite of mnemonic devices and formalized bodily movements stabilized epics as rhythmic, visceral performance, while limiting the ways one telling might vary from another. These were the original technologies for outsourcing memory. Gif Horse: Gifs reiterate an oral tradition as old as The Odyssey Britney Gil 9.7.2016