The Technē of Memory 18 March 2023 at the NYPSI on 247 East 82nd Street New York, NY 10028
What is memory? How does it determine our experience and identity? To what extent does memory influence our understanding of the future? Or of time itself? How do individual memories differ from collective ones? What happens to our sense of belonging and selfhood when our memories are externalized in digital devices? Throughout the history of philosophy and increasingly in neurological studies, these questions have been central to our understanding of human experience.
This panel seeks to address these questions by thinking of memory as a process that occurs both in and outside the brain–in which tools and infrastructures, along with social and personal experiences create the conditions for what we believe we remember. It is this extended sense of mnemonic experience that allows us to look back and think ahead. This panel will also discuss how our increasing engagement with modern technē (which originally meant both art and technology) can help to define, clarify, and enhance our memories, even as the digital world threatens to overwhelm our attention and corporations offer to index our every memory.
This roundtable will also be streamed live and can be watched on Youtube (youtube.com/helixcenter) or on our website (helixcenter.org/videos).
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