{"id":5632,"date":"2019-06-02T11:19:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T09:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=5632"},"modified":"2019-06-02T11:19:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T09:19:34","slug":"memory-loses-its-context-and-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5632","title":{"rendered":"Memory loses its context and story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L. M. Sacasas&#8217;s essay on social media, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/the-inescapable-town-square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Inescapable Town Square<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under these conditions, the function of externalized memory shifts. It is no longer for recording the past or preserving knowledge, but now for acting in the present. Memory loses its context and story. It neither integrates a society, as the rituals of collective remembering in oral societies did, nor does it sustain an individual\u2019s experience of the self, as writing did in the age of print. Memory, much of it highly personal, is \u201cthere,\u201d but without the person necessarily remembering. This allows memory to become weaponized. It exists in massive and accessible databases, ready to be resurfaced, without context and without warning, in a newly contentious field of public discourse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L. M. Sacasas&#8217;s essay on social media, The Inescapable Town Square: Under these conditions, the function of externalized memory shifts. It is no longer for recording the past or preserving knowledge, but now for acting in the present. Memory loses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5632\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}