On the Synthesis of Social Memories

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This essay is about the synthesis of social memories rather than social memoryper seand discusses such a synthesis in the light of digital technologies. Synthesis here is understood in the Kantian sense of ‘putting together different representations and grasping what is manifold in one [act of knowledge]’.² Synthesis thus demands an active unification of parts in contrast to an unconscious or mechanical repetition. To remember something is always a reconstruction in which the fragmented past and the projected future are brought into the present. In the early twentieth century, Maurice Halbwachs introduced the concept of social memory in
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMemory in Motion : Archives, Technology and the Social
EditorsIna Blom, Trond Lundemo, Eivind Røssaak
Number of pages19
Place of PublicationAmsterdam
PublisherAmsterdam University Press
Publication date11.2016
Pages307-325
ISBN (print)978-94-6298-214-7
ISBN (electronic)978-90-4853-206-3
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Publication statusPublished - 11.2016

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