Collective memory
Collective memory does not preserve the past. It selects, distorts, and defends group identity.
Memory
What is kept, what is edited, and what is agreed to be forgotten.
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Cultural memory
Cultural memory isn’t how we remember the past—it’s how the past gets rewritten by the present to serve the next version of us.
Nostalgia
Nostalgia wasn’t about the past—it was about soldiers dying from homesickness.
Susan Sontag
Sontag didn’t just write about images—she diagnosed how they replaced memory with recall.