Memory in Motion

Voluntas: Revista Internacional de Filosofia, 2019

The philosophy of memory today From time immemorial, philosophers have been concerned with issues related to memory. However, the philosophy of memory understood as a particular field is a very new enterprise. This new field of study is the result of the growth of research on memory, which can be measured by a large number of publications in specialized scientific journals, conferences, seminars, as well as societies and research centers. It is safe to say that The philosophy of memory is now well on its way to taking form as a distinct, coherent area of research, with a recognized set of problematics and theories. […] Philosophers of memory […] increasingly think of themselves as philosophers of memory, and the area is in the process of developing its own infrastructure, as books, special issues, conferences, and workshops on all aspects of the philosophy of memory become regular occurrences 1 .

Voluntas, 2019

Memory in Motion. Archives, Technology and the Social Edited by Ina Blom, Trond Lundemo and Eivind Røssaak. Amsterdam University Press, 2016, 332 pages, 39 b/w illustrations. ISBN:9789462982147 How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions, phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. But the question of how social memory should be understood in an age of digital computing, instant updating, and interconnection in real time, is very much up in the air. The essays in this collection discuss the new technologies of memory from a variety of perspectives that explicitly investigate their impact on the very concept of the social. Contributors: David Berry, Ina Blom, Wolfgang Ernst, Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Liv Hausken, Yuk Hui, Trond Lundemo, Adrian Mackenzie, Sónia Matos, Richard Mills, Jussi Parikka, Eivind Røssaak, Stuart Sharples, Tiziana Terranova, Pasi Väliaho. Full book available for download in Open Access: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=619950;keyword=memory%20in%20motion

Collective Memory and Collective Identity: Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History in Their Context, 2021

Memory and History: An Introduction "Collective memory" is one of the issues that has attracted the attention and discussion of scholars internationally across academic disciplines over the past five decades.1 The origin of its theoretical frameworks derives from pioneering works of great thinkers in the 19th century. Despite the fact that Émile Durkheim never utilized the expression "collective memory," he is regarded as the one who gave the foundation to the idea, specifying the social importance of remembrance in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Durkheim characterizes society as an objective reality that maintains "collective consciousness." For him, "collective consciousness" has an impact on individual consciousness.2 "Collective consciousness" is the supreme form of the psychological life, because it is "the consciousness of the consciousnesses."3 Durkheim asserts that being located outside of or above individual and local contingencies, the "collective consciousness" sees things through their perpetual and essential nature, which it shapes into transmittable ideas. On the other hand, Henri Bergson accentuates the subjective facets of time, perception, reality and memory when he writes: Memory actualized in an image differs, then, profoundly from pure memory. The image is a present state, and its sole share in the past is the memory from which it arose. Memory, on the contrary, powerless as long as it remains without utility, is pure from all admixture of sensation, is without attachment to the present, and is, consequently, unextended.4 One generation later, Maurice Halbwachs, who was a student of both Durkheim and Bergson, presented the term "collective memory" in a sociological context, employing it not only to allude to collective portrayals but also to indicate the 1 The literature that discusses "collective memory" is extensive. A few selected monographs should suffice to get a glimpse of the general situation in current scholarship:

New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the chapters making up the book, which are grouped into six sections: challenges and alternatives to the causal theory of memory; activity and passivity in remembering; the affective dimension of memory; memory in groups; memory failures: concepts and ethical implications; and the content and phenomenology of episodic and semantic memory.

Memory Studies, 2019

This article serves as both an état présent of emerging scholarship in the interdisiplinary field of Memory Studies and a conference report following the first MSA Forward interactive workshop which preceded the second annual conference of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) in December 2017. MSA Forward is the postgraduate arm of the Memory Studies Association and offers a platform for exchanging ideas amongst a cohort of emerging scholars engaging with recent developments in Memory Studies and interacting with key academics in the field. The idea of engagement, with its political undertone, draws attention to the political valence and ethical sensitivity of emerging research as evidenced in this article, which contends that if Memory Studies is to be moving forwards as well as looking back, then it is important for emerging scholars as well as established academics to be at the forefront of the field.

The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original book may be apparent.

Social Studies of Science, 2009

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Jahrbuch fuer Politik und Geschiche, 2013

Attracting more than 600 attendees, featuring over 80 panels, five poster sessions, several film screenings, working group dinners, and workshops, the second Memory Studies Association (MSA) annual conference was much larger than the relatively cameral inaugural session in Amsterdam a year before. The 2017 event was also preceded by the MSA Forward one-day doctoral workshop, indicating the Association's intention to provide significant support for early career researchers through scholarships and mentoring. Rather than working towards unifying the field, the nascent MSA brings together researchers and practitioners working on memory-related themes, providing a multidisciplinary network, which the content of the conference program reflects.

Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate, 1969

Memory Studies, 2017

The Philosophical Quarterly, 2012

Special Issue of German Quarterly

International Social Science Journal, 2011

The current international research on the social phenomena of memory and the conditions explained in the general introduction of a sort of globalisation of the body of references are two factors explaining both the extent of the bibliography presented in all the articles in this issue and the heterogeneity of these references. It seemed thus useful to sum up in one list the different references that are, so to speak, common to all articles of this issue. Each article has also its own list of references with its own specificities. The combination of this list of references with those provided by Erll and Nünning (2008), Olick, Vinitzky-Seroussi and Levy (2011), and by Gensburger (2011) will give those who want to explore these issues in greater depth a comprehensive state of the relevant work, old and new.