Link: “Tip-of-the-Tongue Syndrome,” Transactive Memory, and How the Internet Is Making Us Smarter

I came across this interesting read, also a Clive Thompson’s Smarter Than You Think book review, which took a fresh approach about our positive involvement of technology, developing new form of memory and new way of organizing knowledge and a…

Processing Post: Innumerable Species

Took a long time to process things but here is some of my thoughts on what we have been reading and discussing. Both Perec and Boyne viewed classification as a way of exercising power through for its characteristic hierarchy and division no…

Processing Post: Digital Archive and Memories

So I just lost all my photos and conversations on my phone since 2011 so I figured I should process it somehow since our discussions have been largely on digital archiving and how to preserve it. The moments I open…

APPLICATION: THE MAN WHO NEVER THREW ANYTHING AWAY

APPLICATION: THE MAN WHO NEVER THREW ANYTHING AWAY

Regarding its relation to history, culture, politics and memories, it’s not surprising that many modern and contemporary artists have been using the archive as a topic, a context, a medium and an expression. The archive is no longer only defined…