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SHATTERING NEW MEMORY. “Twentieth century media forged new types of mass imaginaries, collectives championed or feared for their capacity to consume and act and think in concert. And this new mass media was also said to remember, to hold a vision of a shared past, to make and remake collective memory...digital technologies and media have transformed remembering and forgetting to such an extent that it should have shattered the cannon.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend features excerpts from ‘Memory of the Multitude, the End of Collective Memory’, by Professor Andrew Hoskins at the University of Glasgow UK, Chair in Global Security (Sociology). This is a remarkable 40,000 foot view of our culture’s immersion into social media, ultimately, a biological phenomenon, since we are part of biology. While it is tightly written, it is really worth the work. Humans, it seems are on the cusp of a significant transformation. https://lnkd.in/dEytMV7 View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION DEMOCRACY. “And these new parameters at least may appear as liberating. For example, the ‘miscellanizing” of information not only breaks it out of its traditional organizational categories but also removes the implicit authority granted by being published in the paper world, and the fluidity, reproducibility and transferability of digital data overnight smash the spatial and artifactual constraints of the twentieth century memory booms.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

ETHERIAL ARCHIVE. “The archive is no longer only collected, organized, managed, walled and kept in an array of institutional memory keepers, but is also diffused through a new ‘memory ecology’. This is the current digital environment’s (re)ordering of the past by and through multiple connectivities of times, actors and events, which also shifts the very parameters of memory and memory studies.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

THE NEW SHADOW ARCHIVES. “Yet the medial gathering and splintering of the individual, social and cultural imaginaries, increasingly networked through portal and pervasive digital media and communication devices, attach shadow archives to much of everyday life, that also blend and complicate that which once was considered distinctly public and private.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

TRADITIONAL ARCHIVES. “The archive has been traditionally seen (like other media) as separate and external to the self, as something with institutional status, as variously a place and space for the storage of artifacts of the past that give rise to remembering.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

THE NEW LANDSCAPE. “The digital’s affordance of movement, liveliness and control, of being connected, actually obfuscates the multitude’s archival dimensions. The multitude forges a non-sociable social or a sharing without sharing precisely because its digitally connected memory is both humanly and algorithmically archived, mixing up and blurring the conscious and the unconscious, the discriminate and the indiscriminate.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

ONE WAY MEMBERSHIP. “Like other kinds of what it is to be social, being a member of the multitude is not something that one can or easily want to leave: attempts to disconnect always end in failure. In some ways, membership of the multitude may feel like being part of traditional collective or crowd.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

THE MULTITUDE. “It is an essential vehicle for acknowledging the state of digital memory as transcendent of the traditional imaginary, or rather delimitation, of the collective as a usefully distinct and locatable form of memory. “ https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn