Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture 99: MIT-2000
16 Nov 2016
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We don(cid:495)t trust our memory because it is deteriorated in the last thousands of years because we learn to read and write so we rely less on our memory and our skill gets damaged. Period of antiquity (most people are illiterate) Simonides of ceos, 5th century bc: banquet-hall collapse, was at a banquet hall which collapsed and he was the sole survivor. Police asked him to tell them who was in the building. He imagined the place and was able to geographically and spatially configure who was there: you fill your brain with images so you can recall later. Memory palace: childhood homes, etc, architechtural digest. Peter of ravenna: when he left his country , he literally carried his home away with him in his memory. Terrain: ancestors would find edible plants and have to know how to get back to get the edible plants.
