Collective Memory Quotes

Collective Memory Quote of the day

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.

This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of that together.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.