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
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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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Capacities
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.