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Memory

What is kept, what is edited, and what is agreed to be forgotten.

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Collective memory

Collective memory does not preserve the past. It selects, distorts, and defends group identity.
8:42

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.
9:05

Nostalgia

Nostalgia wasn’t about the past—it was about soldiers dying from homesickness.
11:33

Susan Sontag

Sontag didn’t just write about images—she diagnosed how they replaced memory with recall.