remember yourself
types of memory:
- public memory – knowledge and information gathered and distributed by public media
- official memory – the representations of the past adopted by the institutions of the state
- unpublic memory – wisdom, facts, information and memories never seen and never heard of in public media
- historical memory – the way the research community views the event in its studies of the past
- popular memory – defined as representations of the past held by the society’s member
- autobiographical memory – directly experienced the events, manifested typically in memorised oral histories
- confabulation – defined as the production of fabricated memory. distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive
- cultural memory – the way the society views its past via cultural heritage, memory required to preserve continuity, social unity and cohesion
mnemonic devices – a mnemonic device, or memory device, is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory for better understanding
you’ll better remember yourself – omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent is not enough
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1518 & projects
the orifice finger – drawings 1518&projects january 2012
