keepin the memory alive
pensamentos em memória gráfica, fotografia, personalidade, journal, respeito próprio e autoconhecimento
keepin the memory alive
What I write is all mine, it’s a living thing, it’s an extension of me that wanders out into the world. It is desire turned inwards instead of outwards, focused instead of displaced. It’s a way to access self-knowledge and self-respect.
Ava • how to avoid half-heartedness
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different
... See moreTed Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
Bogost: Keep a few. Because saving something that you’ll never look at again—kind of in the way that Charan is explaining—if you keep all of it, that actually will erode those memories more than it will amplify them.
Rashid: And I wonder if part of the ease and kind of joy of digital memories is that they are kind of immaterial, and they don’t have
... See moreAnd you know, I understood that memory and personal records and stuff like that, that seemed to be related to time—like, of course they are! But both Sarah and Charan have helped me understand how our drive to document things—whether with diaries or photos or just memories in your head—those are kind of symptoms of that desire to “hold on to” our
... See moreBogost: Huh. So where does the impulse come from, to hoard memories like that? To hold on to everything—to create a bunch of records, or to keep a bunch of scraps, or take a bunch of photographs? Is it about feeling? Is it a desire to be in control of time and its passage?
Ranganath: Yeah, absolutely. I think we’re all afraid of the idea that we
... See moreSo sometimes, it’s not about hoarding every moment as much as being able to value the experiences you’ve had. Because if you have one experience that is valuable that you could draw upon later on from the past week, that’s a whole lot better than mindlessly documenting everything you’ve ever done for the last week, right? And that’s going to be... See more
Becca Rashid • Can We Keep Time?
Rashid: There’s such interesting psychological research about the barriers to connecting with that future version of ourselves. Because for many of us, our identities change with time; we can’t really emotionally connect to the needs of our future self. You know, which makes us probably worse long-term planners. And saving for your future self is
... See moreRanganath: But a lot of my recent work has been, really, about how we use information in episodic memory. And so what I mean by that is: Let’s say you’re watching a movie or you’re listening to a story. How do you use what we’ve learned in memory to be able to understand what’s going on in those stories or movies? How do we predict it?
Or if we’re
... See more