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  1. Nov 2024
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    1. Method of loci, a memorization technique based on spatial memory

      thank goodness I'm not the only one to see this... surely there must be some overlap in scholarship here. But where is it?

    2. A holiday like Juneteenth seems to be expanding since the George Floyd protests to make it a form of lieu de mémoire in the United States.

    3. A lieu de mémoire (French for "site of memory" or memory space) is a physical place or object which acts as container of memory.[1] They are thus a form of memorialisation related to collective memory, stating that certain places, objects or events can have special significance related to group's remembrance.

      This feels like it's tangential to memory palaces, but I'll have to read more of Nora to discern if he had any experience here or if he's simply stumbled upon a related idea, but one which wasn't taken to it's logical extreme.