Technologies
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Memory is often compared to a wax tablet, a storage facility or a film that runs before the “inner eye”. For the writer Gore Vidal, it resembled a play that we stage over and over again.
But to what extent do these images, metaphors and comparisons capture the workings of memory? How does memory operate? What and how do we remember and forget?
Ancient philosophers saw the introduction of writing as a decline, fearing that it would make ancient mnemonics (such as the memory palace) obsolete. Every new media revolution triggered similar fears, including, for example, television in the 1980s. Thanks to the internet, smartphones and social media, our everyday life can be documented and preserved down to the smallest detail. But if we can archive everything and revive it through the media, do we still need to remember ourselves at all? How do technical innovations affect our memory? Or do we perhaps remember far too much?
Participants
is a psychologist and scientific director of a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She uses neuroscientific methods to research how the neuronal basis of learning and remembering changes from childhood to old age.
is a research assistant at the Institute of Sociology at the TU Berlin. She is interested in the interplay of technical media, knowledge, space and memory. A guiding question is always: How do societies currently remember the past?
holds a PhD in philosophy, and was a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin. Today she works as a cultural journalist, such as, among other things, as an editor and presenter of the philosophy programme Sein und Streit on Deutschlandfunk Kultur and as a columnist for Zeit Online and Radio Bremen.