La obsesión por la memoria frente a la sincronicidad de los soportes mnémicos
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2019-03-26
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Universidad EAFIT
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El objetivo de este texto es presentar una interpretación sobre las condiciones e implicaciones de la cultura de la memoria que, desde los años ochenta, caracteriza las relaciones que mantienen las sociedades occidentales con su pasado. A partir del ámbito de la filosofía de la historia, pero retomando instrumentos conceptuales de otros campos, interpretamos los límites de este énfasis en el pasado en función de las peculiaridades de los soportes materiales que lo han hecho posible. Dicha tesis rechaza la comprensión de este boom de memoria como una tentativa para establecer una relación premoderna con el pasado o como una mera reacción a la crisis del futuro, evidenciada a finales del siglo xx. Lo interpretamos, más bien, como un contramovimiento de resistencia a la aplicación de los ritmos de obsolescencia, propios del actual modelo occidental de consumo de información, a nuestro pretérito.
This paper aims to offer an interpretation of the conditions and implications of the memory culture that has characterized, since the eighties, the relations that Western societies maintain with their past. Drawing on the philosophy of history, but using conceptual tools from other fields, we interpret the limits of this emphasis on the past based on the peculiarities of the material media that have enabled it. This thesis rejects the understanding of this memory boom either as an attempt to establish a premodern relationship with the past or as a mere reaction to the crisis of the future, evidenced in the late the 20th century. Rather, we construe it as a movement to counter the application of an obsolescence pace, which is characteristic of the current western model of information consumption, to our past.
This paper aims to offer an interpretation of the conditions and implications of the memory culture that has characterized, since the eighties, the relations that Western societies maintain with their past. Drawing on the philosophy of history, but using conceptual tools from other fields, we interpret the limits of this emphasis on the past based on the peculiarities of the material media that have enabled it. This thesis rejects the understanding of this memory boom either as an attempt to establish a premodern relationship with the past or as a mere reaction to the crisis of the future, evidenced in the late the 20th century. Rather, we construe it as a movement to counter the application of an obsolescence pace, which is characteristic of the current western model of information consumption, to our past.