The Media-History of Memory.
Mapping the Technological Regimes of Memory
Keywords: history of memory, history and memory, media memory, memory studies, technologies of memory.
Abstract: Building upon the twin premises of the historicity and mediality of memory – individual
and collective alike –, this study makes an analytic incursion in the history
of memory in terms of the technological
media of storing knowledge
about the past, i.e. a media-history
of memory. The paper aims,
in the opening act, at shedding light on the inextricable
relationship between memory and the bio-cultural
technology available for preserving knowledge, and thus
saving the past
from oblivion. The study moves
on to trace out the succession of the different “technological regimes of memory”
emerged in human history,
examining how the technology of memory influenced both the formal
structure and the modus
operandi of collective memory, that is to say, both its structural
framework and its regime
of functioning.
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