#mnemotechnics

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Nostalgia 4 Infinity or ‘I’ll Love You Forever’, Charli XCX - forever [Official Video]. 

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Memory has moved away from imagination into mechanical capture, storage, and retrieval. This materialization of mnemotechnics has left the role of the imagination uncertain […] What we now think of as memory machines should probably be called amnesia machines. The first amnesia machine was writing, and now images have joined in forgetting. Each successive storage medium (for both words and images) is less stable than the one that preceded it, so we are losing our memories at an exponential rate as we move into the future. In the age of Total Information Awareness, wherein we are able to capture and “mine” more and more particles of information, we have become less and less able to digest or act on this information. Total Information Awareness = Zero Agency.

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Essays on the Present and Future of Photography

David Levi Strauss

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One of the earliest printed books on the ars memorativa or mnemotechnics

° 502J  Petrus de Rosenheim. (1380-1432). Incipt; Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum [Köln] : [Southern Germany : n.pr., about 1480-90?] or [Cologne? : n.pr., about 1483] or [Ludwig von Renchen?], 1483 Deutschla, ca.…

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5 books thought to remember thinking about.

First Printed edition of “One of the earliest printed books on the ars memorativa or mnemotechnics” . . ca.1480 502J Petrus de Rosenheim. (1380-1432). Nom probable : Petrus Wiechs [incipt Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum] / [Köln] : [Southern Germany : n.pr., about 1480-90?] or [Cologne? : n.pr., about 1483] or [Ludwig von Renchen?], 1483 Deutschland (Oberrhein?).  $12,000  Quarto (205 x…

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The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence (amazon.com)

Something I’ve been meaning to buy and read for a while.

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Mnemotechnics

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Experience

Descartes supposed that consciousness and every thing the mind performs and enables is too much for a piece of flesh, something both tangible and physical. He believed that the mind was an immaterial object, intangible in the sense of a god, which can impact the physical realm. He increasingly appears to be wrong however, with scientists and philosophers giving credence to the extended mind theory. That our mind utilizes particular tools and systems so often, and with such importance, that the mind is not only physical (our brain), but also extending into the objects around us. A couple system, if you will (Wikipedia, 2013).

  Steigler addresses this extension in Anamnesis and Hypomnesis, particularly in relation to memory. He argues that memory is as much external to our being as it is internal, “We have all had an experience of misplacing a memory bearing object, a slip of paper, book, agenda etc. It was then we discovered that a part of ourselves [memory in this case], is outside of us.” (Steigler)

  This directly impacts the way in which we perceive and recall experiences in our life. The first manifestation of mnemotechniques was two-three million years ago, with the development of lithic tools. Tools may not hold memory as such, but are directly related to recall, using previously gained experience-based knowledge to solve a problem. This extended into mnenotechnologies (Steigler), which took memory; recorded it, codified it, and transmitted it to others. What we began to see with the development of mnemotechnologies; print, telegram, newspapers, radio, television and the Internet was a shared memory. The development of a knowledge economy. (Steigler)

  As our shared memory (‘knowledge’) became too large for any one person we began to delegate it between professions and furthermore onto machines as technology developed. This lead to some problems, primarily, as we began to delegate knowledge to machines, we began to lose knowledge – a state of human obsolescence. (Steigler) For example, the proliferation of the GPS has lead to the loss of the vast knowledge of our road network; we theoretically do not need to know how to get anywhere, as a computer will always show us the way. Furthermore as knowledge was shared an issue became of who owns it? How can it be turned into profit? And what’s a fair use of it? With the battle evolving and becoming more turbulent as technology progresses and the knowledge is shared of how to get around payment systems. (Steigler)

Works Cited

Steigler, B. (n.d.). Anamnesis and Hypomnesis: Plato as the first thinker of the proletarianisation. ARS Industries blog .

Wikipedia. (2013, 3 28). The Extended Mind. Retrieved 3 28, 2013, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Mind