#philosophyofmemory — Public Fediverse posts

If you're interested in Philosophy of Memory, The Memory Palace got a French makeover... Bonjour et bienvenu·e au Palais de la mémoire !

#philosophy #philosophyOfMemory

https://substack.com/home/post/p-196517047

In a very positive move, the #philosophy of #memory writing at The Memory Palace is now being translated into Spanish!

The first five articles are now available in... El Palacio de la Memoria!

https://thememorypalacephil.substack.com/s/el-palacio-de-la-memoria

#philosophyOfMemory

#PortfolioDay !!!

I'm a British artist living in #Porto.
Theories of #philosophy of #memory inspire my #cyanotype #origami and #stitchwork creations.

Currently working on #Situationist International studies of cities and maps, and philosophy of cultural memory. Would love to collaborate with a #cartographer or #architect ...

Find more of my work here... https://alunkirby.com/

Thank you!

#PortoArt #PortoArtist #Cameraless #cameralessPhotography #Memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #Sashiko #Debord

#PortfolioDay !!!

I'm a British artist living in #Porto.
Theories of #philosophy of #memory inspire my #cyanotype #origami and #stitchwork creations.

Currently working on #Situationist International studies of cities and maps, and philosophy of cultural memory. Would love to collaborate with a #cartographer or #architect ...

Find more of my work here... https://alunkirby.com/

Thank you!

#PortoArt #PortoArtist #Cameraless #cameralessPhotography #Memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #Sashiko #Debord

#PortfolioDay !!!

I'm a British artist living in #Porto.
Theories of #philosophy of #memory inspire my #cyanotype #origami and #stitchwork creations.

Currently working on #Situationist International studies of cities and maps, and philosophy of cultural memory. Would love to collaborate with a #cartographer or #architect ...

Find more of my work here... https://alunkirby.com/

Thank you!

#PortoArt #PortoArtist #Cameraless #cameralessPhotography #Memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #Sashiko #Debord

#PortfolioDay !!!

I'm a British artist living in #Porto.
Theories of #philosophy of #memory inspire my #cyanotype #origami and #stitchwork creations.

Currently working on #Situationist International studies of cities and maps, and philosophy of cultural memory. Would love to collaborate with a #cartographer or #architect ...

Find more of my work here... https://alunkirby.com/

Thank you!

#PortoArt #PortoArtist #Cameraless #cameralessPhotography #Memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #Sashiko #Debord

#PortfolioDay !!!

I'm a British artist living in #Porto.
Theories of #philosophy of #memory inspire my #cyanotype #origami and #stitchwork creations.

Currently working on #Situationist International studies of cities and maps, and philosophy of cultural memory. Would love to collaborate with a #cartographer or #architect ...

Find more of my work here... https://alunkirby.com/

Thank you!

#PortoArt #PortoArtist #Cameraless #cameralessPhotography #Memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #Sashiko #Debord

A Cyanotype: from prepared exposure to final image. An experiment for the Jetsam series.

1st - exposure of layers of plastic on top of cyanotype paper in a contact frame. Exposed for about 6 hours.

2nd - post-exposure / pre-development. The crucial step! Judging when to stop exposure is the hardest thing to learn

3rd - post-development 'final' image. Texture and structure as hoped!

#cyanotype
#blueprint
#jetsam
#memory
#philosophy
#philosophyofmemory
#composite
#sunprint
#oceanplastic
#porto

A first experiment with Jetsam.

This is using lots of fragments of plastic matter of all kinds, but essentially 2D.

I am layering up to 5 or 6 pieces, as I want to develop texture.

The idea is that these fragments of memories come together to create a new composite memory. Perhaps in the way a socially-shared memory differs from the way any single individual might remember it.

#cyanotype #blueprint #jetsam #memory #philosophy #philosophyofmemory #composite #sunprint #oceanplastic #porto

Starting a new series - JETSAM

It's about memory; specifically, the things we use to help us remember, and the ways in which we forget.

I have been searching the shoreline for jetsam.

Some treasures will become evocative objects.

Others are fragments of memories.

The first step has been collection...

#jetsam #memory #forget #forgetting #remembrance #seashore #scavengerhunt #treasure #philosophy #philosophyofmemory #evocativeobjects

Abstraction and memory.

Scraps of cyanotype coated tissue paper - forgotten parts of other works - laid out in up to 6 layers as 'negatives'.

Sun reveals the constructed image. It reminds me of [ ].

And you?

It's a strange creative process.

Like searching for the memory of something you had forgotten that you remembered.

#cyanotype #blueprint #scraps #AbstractArt #memory #forgotten #remembered #layers #ArtisticProcess #sunprint #PaperNegatives #TissuePaper #PhilosophyOfMemory

Catching up on the #SPP2023 #preconference on #memory:

Felipe De Brigaard introduced us to the topic and some recent trends before a series of talks ensued.

Find Felipe's work on gScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l9gS2joAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

#philosophy #PhilMind #PhilosophyOfMemory #google #nGram

I'm enjoying the regular articles on The Memory Palace, written by academics in Philosophy of Memory.

The latest discusses whether memory is a 'natural kind' or 'social kind'.

That is, is memory based solely on neurology and other biological systems?

Or is memory something that exists in the context of social structures, like love or gender?

https://thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/a-social-critical-metaphysics-of

#memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #philosophy #MemoryPalace

The Memory Palace
https://thememorypalacephil.substack.com/

A new blog about philosophy of memory, set up by Prof. Sarah Robins (https://www.sarahkrobins.com/) and Dr. Marta Carava (https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/marta-carav%C3%A0.html)

Latest post is by Prof. John Sutton! https://johnsutton.net/

#philosophy #philosophyofmemory #philosophyOfMind #memory #mindpalace #memorypalace

What's a 'memory trace'? How do we store memories? How do we recall memories?! How on earth does memory work at all!?!

Sarah Robins understands more than most, and talks about Philosophy of Memory on the Brain Inspired podcast.

#SarahRobins #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMemory #BrainInspired #MemoryTraces

https://braininspired.co/podcast/157/

Latest post from The Memory Palace

Nostalgia and Grief - in which I learnt that 'the term “nostalgia” derives from “nostos” meaning (return to the homeland) compounded with “algos” meaning suffering or grief'

Johannes Hofer, who coined the term in 1934, described nostalgia as “the grief for the lost charm of the Native Land”

#nostalgia #grief #memory #philosophy #PhilosophyOfMemory

https://thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/nostalgia-and-grief?publication_id=2254296&post_id=165560208

A very tender, thoughtful article, superficially about photography, but mostly about memory, grief and our relationship with time.

Perhaps seeing photography not as capturing the present, but creating the past.

https://www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/polaroid-death-machine/

CW for Covid-19 and pandemic related content.
By Mike Scalise.

#photography #polaroid #sx70 #memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #philosophy #GeorgiaReview #MikeScalise #covid #grief

Some more cyanotypes from the last few days. It's not been sunny, but enough UV light gets through the clouds to drive the reaction.

Having said that, some of these exposures run into days...

#cyanotype
#blueprint
#origami
#metamorphogram
#memory
#PhilosophyOfMemory #reeds #waves #longexposure #abstract #cameraless #cameralessPhotography

I have been back making cyanotypes.

Each of of these cyanotypes is a literal memory (as defined by my first philosophy of memory publication!).

Artist life has been hard lately. No change there, really, but it helps to make things.

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #metamorphogram #memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #orizuru

An example of how institutionally-curated memories can create a perfect, yet completely fake, cultural identity for an entire nation.

Really thought-provoking.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/30/israel-and-the-delusions-of-germanys-memory-culture

#philosophy #PhilosophyOfMemory #CulturalIdentity #Memory #CulturalMemory #Fascism #Israel #Nazi #Germany #TheGuardian

Philosophy of Memory resources...

The Memory Palace - a blog of current themes in PhilMem

https://thememorypalacephil.substack.com/

and

PhilMemBib - searchable bibliography of PhilMem papers with simple download links wherever available

https://phil-mem.org/philmembib.html

Also PhilPapers for general philosophy searches. Shocking how many papers are NOT Open Access, but a quick email to the corresponding author works every time.

https://philpapers.org/

#PhilosophyOfMemory #philosophy #OpenAccess #Memory

Been triggered by a post at the ambientehotel https://wp.me/pgxF5-4I5

Saudade

Nostalgia ≠ Memory?
Memory ≠ Identity?
Experience ≠ Memory?
Memory ≡ Imagination?

Who wrote @mjohnharrison 's Wish I Was Here?

Borges didn't know who wrote 'Borges and I'

Did Kublai Khan or Marco Polo write Calvino's 'Invisible Cities'?

Wendy Mitchell asks, 'Which me am I today?'

Saudade ≡ conjury?

#saudade #porto #philosophy #philosophyofmemory #jorgeLuisBorges #Calvino #memory

A little toot on my own trumpet...

The 10 images in the series 'The Scar Is Not The Memory' will be for sale as part of the 12x12 Festival in Lisbon, 7-10 December.

Everything in the festival is just €25 each.

There will be an online catalogue available shortly.

Find 12x12 on Insta here: https://www.instagram.com/1_2_x_1_2/

See a reel of all the series here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzlUxgxI0MG/

Thank you!

#cyanotype #metamorphogram #blueprint #scar #memory #philosophy #philosophyofmemory #lisboa #porto

More of the series 'The Scar Is not The Memory'

Cyanotype on watercolour paper with silk stitching.

#metamorphogram
#origami
#blueprint
#cyanotype
#memory
#philosophy
#philosophyofmemory
#redthread
#scar
#VisibleMending
#octagon #triangle #squares #geometric #orizuru

The Scar Is Not The Memory. Metamorphogram, silk thread.

First in a series.

Unfolding origami, folds remain, like scars gained in the process.

But a scar is a mnemonic, not a memory.

Here, the memory (cyanotype + origami = metamorphogram; a visible memory) and scars overlap.

Sometimes, the process of becoming is so tough that stitches are needed to repair the damage.

#metamorphogram #origami #blueprint #cyanotype #memory #philosophy #philosophyofmemory #redthread #scar #VisibleMending

Coming soon...
Issues in Philosophy of Memory 3.5

An online, freely accessible conference weighted towards the work of early career researchers.

Some great session chairs lined up, and some very interesting talks proposed.

All details here:
https://www.phomo.org/events/ipm3-5

#philosophy #philosophyOfMemory #philosophyOfMind #memory #mnemonic #onlineconference

A searchable bibliography of publications relating to philosophy of memory:

https://phil-mem.org/philmembib.html

Over 2000 entries.
Hosted by the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at the Universite Grenoble Alps.

#philosophy #philosophyOfMemory #memory #database #bibliography #CPM #UnversiteGrenobleAlps

I've been interviewed about my background, process, cyanotypes, origami, memory and more.

You can watch it here (18 mins):
https://youtu.be/1V7hR8fEvnA

(Disclosure: Subcultours facilitate artist workshops, and invited me to join them)

I hate being in front of the camera, so this is a rare occurrence. And... is there anyone out there who likes the sound of their own voice?

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #metamorphogram #memory #philosophy #philosophyOfMemory #artistinterview #selfconscious

The artistic reality.

Spent the day researching philosophical aspects of the narrative self, and scouring the internet for information and opportunities in Porto.

Now I'm tired, and demoralized.

Onde estão as oportunidades artísticas no Porto?!

But I know a bit more about philosophy of memory.

#ArtistLife #ArtisticReality #Porto #ArtistsOfPorto #ArtisticResearch #ThisPlaceMustBeEarth #philosophy #philosophyOfmemory #NarrativeSelf #warning

The good people at the Centre for Philosophy of Memory are holding a workshop on causation in memory.

Do memory traces exist? How would / do they work? What about reconstructing memories? What do we need in order to remember something?

Excellent speakers.

No registration required.

FREE access via Zoom!!!

https://phil-mem.org/events/2023-causation.php

#philosophy #PhilosophyOfMemory #Causation #MemoryTraces #UnversiteGrenobleAlps #Engram #Memory #OnlineWorkshop

Cyanotype can reveal beautiful detail. The 'grain' is, with the right subject, very fine indeed.

This is a rose leaf. It has been 'scarred' by the visit of a leaf miner.

Physical scars act as mnemonics etched on our bodies, which remind us of certain events.

A scar means we survived and, physically, healed.

What happens to the memory? Does it fade with the scar?

#cyanotype #blueprint #Rose #RoseLeaf #LeafMiner #details #porto #Scar #Mnemonic #Memory #PhilosophyOfMemory

Took the 30-unit modular origami apart and developed all the pieces into 30 similar but unique images.

30 objects which had exactly the same preparation, exactly the same form, became part of the same 'community' in the same place for the same time.

And yet, each perception differs slightly, each memory is the consequence of individual experience within that group.

But now, what?

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #metamorphogram #unique #memory #philosophy #PhilosophyOfMemory #perception

"[L]et’s think a bit more about this complex business of relating what we think of as a self to what we think of as a past."

Lovely short interview with @mjohnharrison here:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/m-john-harrison-i-want-to-be-the-first-human-to-imitate-chatgpt-wish-i-was-here

Mentions being a chocolate addict. I know the feeling, and can recommend a supplier - Zotter.
https://www.zotter.at/en/online-shop/brands/labooko
Their Labooko range is my drug of choice nowadays.

#WishIWasHere #MJohnHarrison #ChocolateAddict #Bookstodon #Memory #AntiMemoir #philosophy #PhilosophyOfMemory

A talk by Kate Sekules, all about Mending.

There is so much in here relating to memory, both individual and cultural.

Plus, it makes me want to reach for my stock of embroidery threads....

#KateSekules #VisibleMend #VisibleMending #Memory #philosophy #PhilosophyOfMemory #SocialHistory #Mending #Boro

https://www.youtube.com/live/0C3XKvAjKdQ?feature=share&t=1209

We have become used to outsourcing our memory, particularly as photographs.

If all your digital photos, music, writing... were lost, how much of 'you' would be lost with it?

Would you be diminished as a person?

Would your 'self' change with the loss of memories?

#memory #philosophy #PhilosophyOfMemory #philosophyOfMind #DigitalData #DigitalStorage #ExtendedMind #DataLoss #Backup #Glitch

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/27/digital-loss-photos-backup-deleted-memory

Starting a new series - JETSAM

It's about memory; specifically, the things we use to help us remember, and the ways in which we forget.

I have been searching the shoreline for jetsam.

Some treasures will become evocative objects.

Others are fragments of memories.

The first step has been collection...

#jetsam #memory #forget #forgetting #remembrance #seashore #scavengerhunt #treasure #philosophy #philosophyofmemory #evocativeobjects

Starting a new series - JETSAM

It's about memory; specifically, the things we use to help us remember, and the ways in which we forget.

I have been searching the shoreline for jetsam.

Some treasures will become evocative objects.

Others are fragments of memories.

The first step has been collection...

#jetsam #memory #forget #forgetting #remembrance #seashore #scavengerhunt #treasure #philosophy #philosophyofmemory #evocativeobjects

Starting a new series - JETSAM

It's about memory; specifically, the things we use to help us remember, and the ways in which we forget.

I have been searching the shoreline for jetsam.

Some treasures will become evocative objects.

Others are fragments of memories.

The first step has been collection...

#jetsam #memory #forget #forgetting #remembrance #seashore #scavengerhunt #treasure #philosophy #philosophyofmemory #evocativeobjects

Starting a new series - JETSAM

It's about memory; specifically, the things we use to help us remember, and the ways in which we forget.

I have been searching the shoreline for jetsam.

Some treasures will become evocative objects.

Others are fragments of memories.

The first step has been collection...

#jetsam #memory #forget #forgetting #remembrance #seashore #scavengerhunt #treasure #philosophy #philosophyofmemory #evocativeobjects

Cyanotype can reveal beautiful detail. The 'grain' is, with the right subject, very fine indeed.

This is a rose leaf. It has been 'scarred' by the visit of a leaf miner.

Physical scars act as mnemonics etched on our bodies, which remind us of certain events.

A scar means we survived and, physically, healed.

What happens to the memory? Does it fade with the scar?

#cyanotype #blueprint #Rose #RoseLeaf #LeafMiner #details #porto #Scar #Mnemonic #Memory #PhilosophyOfMemory

Cyanotype can reveal beautiful detail. The 'grain' is, with the right subject, very fine indeed.

This is a rose leaf. It has been 'scarred' by the visit of a leaf miner.

Physical scars act as mnemonics etched on our bodies, which remind us of certain events.

A scar means we survived and, physically, healed.

What happens to the memory? Does it fade with the scar?

#cyanotype #blueprint #Rose #RoseLeaf #LeafMiner #details #porto #Scar #Mnemonic #Memory #PhilosophyOfMemory

Cyanotype can reveal beautiful detail. The 'grain' is, with the right subject, very fine indeed.

This is a rose leaf. It has been 'scarred' by the visit of a leaf miner.

Physical scars act as mnemonics etched on our bodies, which remind us of certain events.

A scar means we survived and, physically, healed.

What happens to the memory? Does it fade with the scar?

#cyanotype #blueprint #Rose #RoseLeaf #LeafMiner #details #porto #Scar #Mnemonic #Memory #PhilosophyOfMemory

Cyanotype can reveal beautiful detail. The 'grain' is, with the right subject, very fine indeed.

This is a rose leaf. It has been 'scarred' by the visit of a leaf miner.

Physical scars act as mnemonics etched on our bodies, which remind us of certain events.

A scar means we survived and, physically, healed.

What happens to the memory? Does it fade with the scar?

#cyanotype #blueprint #Rose #RoseLeaf #LeafMiner #details #porto #Scar #Mnemonic #Memory #PhilosophyOfMemory

I have been back making cyanotypes.

Each of of these cyanotypes is a literal memory (as defined by my first philosophy of memory publication!).

Artist life has been hard lately. No change there, really, but it helps to make things.

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #metamorphogram #memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #orizuru

I have been back making cyanotypes.

Each of of these cyanotypes is a literal memory (as defined by my first philosophy of memory publication!).

Artist life has been hard lately. No change there, really, but it helps to make things.

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #metamorphogram #memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #orizuru

I have been back making cyanotypes.

Each of of these cyanotypes is a literal memory (as defined by my first philosophy of memory publication!).

Artist life has been hard lately. No change there, really, but it helps to make things.

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #metamorphogram #memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #orizuru

I have been back making cyanotypes.

Each of of these cyanotypes is a literal memory (as defined by my first philosophy of memory publication!).

Artist life has been hard lately. No change there, really, but it helps to make things.

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #metamorphogram #memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #orizuru

More of the series 'The Scar Is not The Memory'

Cyanotype on watercolour paper with silk stitching.

#metamorphogram
#origami
#blueprint
#cyanotype
#memory
#philosophy
#philosophyofmemory
#redthread
#scar
#VisibleMending
#octagon #triangle #squares #geometric #orizuru

More of the series 'The Scar Is not The Memory'

Cyanotype on watercolour paper with silk stitching.

#metamorphogram
#origami
#blueprint
#cyanotype
#memory
#philosophy
#philosophyofmemory
#redthread
#scar
#VisibleMending
#octagon #triangle #squares #geometric #orizuru

More of the series 'The Scar Is not The Memory'

Cyanotype on watercolour paper with silk stitching.

#metamorphogram
#origami
#blueprint
#cyanotype
#memory
#philosophy
#philosophyofmemory
#redthread
#scar
#VisibleMending
#octagon #triangle #squares #geometric #orizuru