| The Technology of Collective Memory and the Normativity of Truth (2008) | |||||||||
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| The last two decades have seen extraordinary growth in the development of small, democratised, fragmented efforts to establish collective memories for various groups and cultures, aided by new technology and media, especially collaborative Web tools. This has led to considerable dislocation – one commentator has noted the apparent contradiction of an “obsession” with memory in a society “terminally ill with amnesia”. In this paper I will examine some of the effects on memory, collective and individual, of the memory boom in the context of the spread of technology. | |||||||||
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