“We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.” WritingSpiritualLife IsValuesMemoriesHistoricalStores Author:Patricia Hampl
“My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.” PeopleWayLanguageMemoriesBloodHistoricalObsessionEmpiresRootedColonialismEnslavementIconographyDisenfranchisement Author:Natasha Trethewey
“The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.” WorldMindMeanMadeReasonFormValuesMemoriesActingBrainPrinciplesFailingDiversityComputerProgramHistoricalDrivenScalesInternalsCategoriesCriteriaConstraintsAnalogies Author:Gerald Edelman
“One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.” MemoriesHistoricalDelightfulDelightful Things Author:Zhou Enlai
“How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?” DoeSocialMemoriesPhotographyHistoricalPhotographTransformedPower Relationships Book:Fish story Source: Fish story