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Some questions risen today about my project:
How personal records are connected to worldwide history?
How ordinary people participate and understand historical aspects? (ref: debate websites as opendemocracy.com)
Is that possible to build a worldwide history overview based on testimonies of ordinary people? (ref: narratives in literature such as James Joyce’s Ulysses, Kempowski’s Echolot, Tolstoi’s War and Peace, etc)
How individual comprehension of history (subjective) could contributes to enrich or change the social stipulated history?

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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Overview of available technologies of cooperation.

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