“So, a pressing research question for Digital Humanities might be “how do we make tools to avoid a lost generation?” And one response might be “digital memory palaces” (though this is, perhaps, a hopeful thought experiment rather than a viable suggestion).”
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AUSTIN KLEON: On advertising: Banksy vs. Gossage →
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This Banksy quote from Cut It Out has been making the rounds:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments…
“She added, “Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords and URLs. We are becoming ‘persistent paleontologists’ of our own external memories, as our brains are storing the keywords to get back to those memories and not the full memories themselves.”
—This is the next positive step in human evolution: We become “persistent paleontologists of our external memories” | Pew Internet & American Life Project
“In some sense, memory studies is really a phenomenon of the last quarter century. One hundred years ago, there would have, of course, been studies of memory - by Freud, by Bergson, by Proust - but they would have been primarily interested in individual memory. What has happened in the last quarter century has been a turn toward cultural memory. And because of this turn, the term memory studies has acquired currency.”
— Paul Connerton CABINET // Historical Amnesias: An Interview with Paul Connerton
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At best, we nurture the fantasy that knowledge is always cumulative, and therefore concede that future eras will know more than we do. But we ignore or resist the fact that knowledge collapses as often as it accretes, that our own most cherished beliefs might appear patently false to posterity.
That fact is the essence of the meta-induction — and yet, despite its name, this idea is not pessimistic. Or rather, it is only pessimistic if you hate being wrong. If, by contrast, you think that uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world, then this is actually a highly optimistic insight.
” —Kathryn Schulz and 150 other big thinkers each pick one scientific concept to improve your cognitive toolkit.
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