Memory and Space
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Who cannot remember where they were on September 11th? We cannot think about space without memory, nor can we have memory without space. It is in this way that psychology and the unconscious assume an important role in our organization of metafora and where we place the images of falling buildings. Time has little meaning for memory, because memory does not record the duration of a sensation. Calling forth the past requires an abstraction that is devoid of a specific time frame. Memories float in the vast ocean of experience and by connecting them to space, we fix them. Organizing them in a timeline is the work of biographers and historians, but personal memory does not work that way. Memory is a creative act, one that depends on the medium of space.
See Also
- Metaphors of Space
- Bolter
- Davies
- Concrete Poetry
- Memory and Space
- Cyberpunk
- Romantic Time
- Canning
- Minsky
