Feeder 1 Everywhere!

When my wife got home this evening she showed me this article she came across today entitled "Reading the Past Against the Grain: The Shape of Memory Studies," by Barbie Zelizer (it's from the June 1995 issue of Review and Criticism if you want to look it up). This article is a very broad survey of what scholars in the humanities have to say about memory, but there's a section just on the sort of thing we're doing for Feeder 1. Here are some excerpts:

One of the most marked characteristics of collective memory is that it has texture. Memory exists in the world rather than in a person's head, and so is embodied in different cultural forms. We find memory in objects, narratives about the past, even the routines by which we structure our day. No memory is embodied in any of these artifacts, but instead bounces to and fro among all of them, on its way to gaining meaning. (232)

And another passage which is even more relevant:

Visual records stabilize the transient nature of memory itself, which, not unlike reality, is subject to continual reconstruction. From art to cinema to television to photography, the visual dimension of memory aids in the recall of things and events past. (233)

I don't really expect anything this academic from you guys just yet, but it will give you some hints about how to think about memory more deeply. 

¶ 9:50 PM