Memory
But as the digital age drowns us in exponentially increasing rates of new content—most of which is trivial and ephemeral—it is becoming clear that almost everything more than a few years old gets buried by incoming content. This is a serious problem for the continuity of any civilization if most writing and ideas propagate laterally (from peer-to-p
... See moreHistory often presents itself as grand, sweeping narratives—wars, revolutions, prominent figures that reshaped the world. But the tiny, easily missed fragments of peoples everyday life holds a different truth than what we’re used to seeing. In some ways, the search for these details feels like reaching back in time and keeping those voices from fad
... See morethedigitalmeadow.substack.com • Why Do We Crave Useless Knowledge?
Social remembering: Our own recollection is tied to others with whom we have shared our life.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
We are all, to one degree or another, made of what we call “memory,” not only the bits and pieces of time visible to us in pictures that have hardened with our repeated stories, but also the memories we embody and don’t understand—the smell that carries with it something lost or the gesture or touch of a person who reminds us of another person, or
... See moreSiri Hustvedt • Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
And so there are many wells which, like Madron, are named now for the saints – but under their shallow surface ripples lie the deep, clear traces of far older stories.
Sharon Blackie • If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
These are ancient paths of Dreaming etched into the landscape in song and story and mapped into our minds and bodies and relationships with everything around us: knowledge stored in every waterway and every rock.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
The answers to the biggest questions we have about identity, story, and God can only be answered in relation to memory. Without memory, we are forced to rely solely on ideas and suggestions to make sense of who we are, as opposed to the concrete.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Philosopher Bernard Stiegler distinguishes technology in its broadest sense as what makes us human, and he considers technical memory as that which “enables the transmission of the individual experience of people from generation to generation.” … Producing technology produces memory.
A Very Short Introduction to Memory and Technology Kei Kreutl
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