memory
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memory
Umwelt , as I learned from Ed Yong’s book, An Immense World , is the world as it is experienced by a particular organism. How does the organism that is my dad now , not my dad of 5 or 25 or 50 years ago, experience the world? What language assigns itself, or doesn’t, to the surfer and the wave, the son and the daughter? How cold and confused and in... See more
Courtney Martin • Forgetting and becoming
Given the large degree to which metaphors from digital technologies shape our understanding of memory, it’s surprising that our images of memory are so abstracted from how humans experience memory.
Kei Kreutler • Images of Memory
What matters more is how we relate with memory, that is to say how we look back to understand our history and retroactively give meaning and context to our lives
Ida Josefiina • What We See and What We Know
Before a tipping point in a complex system, there are early warning signals that may be detected.14 The most widely applicable of these early warning signals is “critical slowing down”—the phenomenon we are all familiar with before our computer crashes, and rather than heed the implications of this slower processing power, we jam at the keys in
... See moreSummer Praetorius • The Great Forgetting
History holds too many examples of what happens when the masses suddenly wake up to a sense of overwhelming dread