Memory
Participating in a collective display of nostalgia: Because of the game’s age and cult status, the livestream became a space of collective remembrance where people were compelled to voice their feelings of nostalgia, their own high scores, their lamentation of not having their DS anymore. Many comments were along the lines of “omg, childhood memory
... See moreIn 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
And They Disappeared – Extreme Humility Fr. Stephen 4.3.2025
Capacities
While all technologies leave traces behind that can be “read” as texts, not all technologies induce intentional modes of remembering and knowing, or new modes of consciousness (new modes of unconsciousness though, are a dime a dozen in every technological era).
Welcome to the Cosmopolis Venkatesh Rao 8.12.2025
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.
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the account given of the oracle of Trophonios by the ancient historian Pausanias. Those who sought the oracle’s wisdom underwent an elaborate ritual, which included drinking from two fountains: one bearing the Water of Lethe and the other bearing the Water of Mnemosyne.2 The goddess Mnemosyne was the goddess of memory and, not incidentally, the... See more
Capacities
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
Capacities
According to Rousso, the collective memory of a nation can be perpetuated through different vectors: officials, i.e. the institution of public ceremonies and celebrations way (a vector) to create proximity with a past that is more and more distant. As a cultural and scholarly vector, due to its capacity to reenact and interpret facts according to a
... See moreBut 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
... See moreThese 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.