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Still not released, Miomi almost follows the idea I’ve described in my master proposal. The authors, Richard Schreiber, Karlheinz Toni and Thomas Whitfield have won 100 Million dollars to develop the concept, what makes me believe the idea is not bad at all. But I’ve to admit they had an insight that I would never have, and which I’m still struggling to accept: “selling the time”. In Miomi each moment costs one dollar, not sure what moment means… one second? one minute? Let’s wait for the release.
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After reading an article of Immanuel Wallerstein, I tranformed the questions posted in January in an argument for my thesis. In Writing History he discusses the historians’ role showing how the veracity of the information put forward by historians has been challenged in recent years - since every analysis involves an interpretation which is colored by the social and personal biography of the interpreter and by the pressures of the moment at which the interpretation is being made.

While the role of historians is questioned, there remains the question about who is going to take the historians’ role of creating and preserving collective memory. (more…)

Trying to understand the relation between memory and history, I found this issue of the journal Representations. In his article Pierre Nora describes Memory and History as almost opposite concepts. While memory is described as multiple and specific; collective, plural, and individual, History, trying to be an universal authority, would “belong to everyone and to no one”. Memory takes root in the concrete, in spaces, gestures, images, and objects; history binds itself strictly to temporal continuities, to progressions and to relations between things. Memory is absolute, while history can only conceive the relative. At the heart of history is a critical discourse that is antithetical to spontaneous memory. History is perpetually suspicious of memory, and its true mission is to suppress and destroy it.

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