The purpose of an iconomic science of memory is thus to expand the focus on the ß ux of information that constitutes the connection process between communicative memories and cultural policies as human rights and citizenship. The iconicity of memories is thus a portal or access point for the open and democratic exploration of cultural and temporal movements, leveraged by digital mobility and connectivity in cities.
Good definition
Within and between these increasingly structured domains, ‘memory agents’ and remembering agency can
Reminds me of non-profitization- taking away the radical aspects from this work. But also, how do you fund it/compensate people for their time? Much to think about.
Otherwise, most of the memory monetization processes involved will rely on governmental resources and agendas or entirely commercial schema, which may not converge with open, public and shared expectations
Important context
These are entanglements of the ‘I’ or the individual (as citizen, consumer, person); iconicity (memes, codes, symbols, narratives); and industry (supply–demand, scarcity–abundance, production, distribution and investment).
More important conceptual framing/explanation
Under-scoring the political economy of active remembering/forgetting, a ‘trans’ memory studies thinking (Erll 2011) offers a conceptual framework for exploring digital memory as an ‘iconomy’ that defi nes the relationship between personal narratives and cultural/political economies in a globalized digital age.
Important concept
Memory studies scholars recognize the global commodity chains that afford (or not) the development of digitally and socially mediated memory
Important to recognize the economies in which memories exist in, esp in the digital age
f digital memory embedded in, and ß owing across, social–digital–environmental spheres
Interesting layer
ollaborative response from a UK–Brazil research perspective on environmental, economic and cultural issues that concern memory studies
Important context
an affective economy
Important framing, especially in the digital age where any content put on Big Tech Platforms can literally be turned into profit.
criticised for assuming that memorycommunities were homogeneous and unitarian and that remembrance was drivenmainly by elites
This is an important note. As I said in a different annotation, memory is connected to the state as a mechanism of power. However, the way the state enforces it's power varies group to group, resulting in differing memories and perspectives, though there can obviously be overlap.
Memory Studies was considered a field of research
Important distinction. The idea of memory can seem so personal, individual (which it is), but memory is also a much larger, powerful tool used by the state to shape culture and perceptions
I suspect, nevertheless, that he was not very capable of thought. To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract. I
The descriptions of Funes points to him gaining understanding from being present in his existence, almost like all his knowledge and being was extracted from only the physical-he's almost like a sensualist.
He was the solitary and lucid spectator of a multiform world which was instantaneously and almost intolerably exact
This sentence provides texture
He told me: I have more memories in myself alone than all men have had since the world was a world. And again: M y dreams are like your vigils. And again, toward dawn: My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal
I like this description of his inner world.