| E | what KINDS of things get remembered? (Oral history
--Jan Vansina) |
| E | creation of iconic culture: images known
everywhere |
| E | DNA as species memory (and the implications of
decoding) |
| E | The Magical Number 7 (and short- and long-term
memory) |
| E | WWW as a new memory technology, replacing older ones.
Ephemerality, transcultural significance (English as world language;
translation software) |
| E | all Archives have half lives |
| E | memory drugs |
| M | memory palaces
?Ad Herennium? |
| M | hiring somebody to remember for you (killing them
erased the memory --Aztecs? Diebold?) |
| M | string tied on finger? rubber band? as aides
memoires |
| M | quipu (an
Incan data structure --see Leyburn Library F3429.3.Q6
A82 1981 |
| M | rhyme (poetry as technology of memory: Homeric epics,
Kalevala, sagas, Yugoslav ballads, jongleurs, troubadours) |
| M | formulaic --begats, other genealogical frames (Iban,
Icelandic) |
| M | strategies for remembering --exact repetition |
| M | remembering and communicating patterns and spatial
designs --rugs, pua |
| M | music, song in formula (verse, next verse,
chorus...) |
| M | sensorineural memories, viz: skills developed (fingers
know what to do; hierarchies of small actions built up into action
patterns: initiate top level and it all happens, like basketball
shooting, driving, playing music... |
| M | how the mind organizes tasks, to remember, via
practise |
| M | repetition, drilling (times tables, typing) somewhat
out of fashion as pedagogy |
| W | writing --for self, as cultural memory, as
communication medium |
| W | numbering adjoining parts |
| W | hiring somebody to write and/or read for you |
| W | writing on one's own body |
| W | Hawaiians, literacy, Bible as serial, displacement of
memory specialists |
| W | Plains Indian blankets/buffalo robes |
| W | early history of writing: transactions, inventories,
lists of possessions (cuneiform, etc.) tally sticks (Burke
1985:108); inventing syllabaries [Cherokee, Korean] |
| W | journal-keeping |
| W | ordering: alphabetization, other sequencing, filing and
recovery of the thing sought (1494: first indexed catalogue [Burke
1985:120]) |
| W | codes, cryptography |
| W | maps, including Pacific Island navigation
maps |
| W | list-making |
| W | blueprints --remembering what to do |
| W | contextual help, balloon help in very complex
situations with lots of choices (handling overload); files, directory
structures |
| W | shelf labels... and new inventory methods in grocery
stores [and mfg plants --JIT] including what needs to be
ordered |
| W | Gantt charts (organizing large systems) |
| W | train schedules |
| W | bearing trees, C&:GS markers (where-is memory),
blazes, stakes, surveyor's tape |
| W | menus --to remind what the choices are |
| W | recipes |
| W | mind maps |
| W | calendrics and the fixing of time; saint's
days |
| W | printing destroyed the oral society (Burke
1985:112) |
| W | ready reckoners? |
| H | memory button on calculator |
| H | tally boards in navigation |
| H | ferrite core memory |
| H | electronic devices --dictaphone, thermostat
hi-lo.. |
| H | graphic devices --kymograph (recording the Present as
it happens) |
| H | pill packaging by days |
| H | film and photography --archiving memories |
| H | TV before and after videotape |
| H | tape recording (and wire before that) |
| H | other sound recording media --wax, shellac, vinyl; and
noise reduction for recovery of 'lost' memory (reissues of
recorded sound) |
| H | memory prostheses in the future? (jacking in
--cyberpunk) |
| H | home videos --including the voices of the
departed. But also home movies, vernacular photography |
| H | answering machines --saving messages? replaying
tapes? |