"Collective memory is a phrase that can mean all or nothing to different people” (Page 12)
“Historical memory is currently constructed mostly from and grows increasingly dependent on material provided by reproductive technologies – Photography, film, video and audio recordings. And private memory has largely been subsumed in public spectacle” (Page 24)
“Significantly, it is photography which provides access to not merely a past, but to emotional recollections. This points to the extent to which the shards and shreds of all our memories, even those from childhood, are increasingly supplemented, shaped, structured and recomposed – albeit often unwittingly – by reproductive imagery.”
The Site of Memory (Lynne Cooke)
“…Elephants know where to go and die. Led by the memory of something that hadn’t happened to them… We’re not elephants, or Salmon that swim upstream to cold water, and memory isn’t an instinct, but after a while once the thing has happened, the event, the gesture, the word spoken or withheld. It becomes a fact in your body that may not be physical but is returned to as if it were instinct..” (Lynne Tillman, fixing memory 1987) Page 23.
“Family photographs that she possesses are indeed the source of authentic memories” (Blade runner)
“It is by the presence of memories, and their attendant emotions that humans are distinguished from replicates, or stimulated humans, she crosses over and is accepted as human.
For all their affectivity, these are nonetheless, false memories since the figures pictured in the photographs are not Rachel’s relatives nor could she herself have been actually present. And yet, Deckard reasons, given in depth of her belief in these images, and the intensity with which she has invested in them, they have become for her as potent as a genuine memory.” (Page 23)
“There is little to distinguish fabricated memories and experimental memories, today, this notion no longer belongs to the realm of futuristic fiction” (Page 23)
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