Invited talk: The perfect memory storm

Author(s):  
Brent Keeth
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Open Theology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 274-287
Author(s):  
Jessica Wiskus

AbstractAugustine’s account in the Confessions Book IX of his ecstasy at Ostia remains unsurpassed in its poetic force, yet unusual, as a description of religious experience, in two particular respects. First of all, what he describes is not a “vision” of God, but an experience of listening. Second, it is not a solitary but a shared experience (e.g., with his mother, Monica). This essay considers the significance of these two elements by analyzing the relation between his description in Book IX and the understanding of rhythm that he develops in De musica. Drawing also on Book X (on memory) and Book XI (on time-consciousness) in the Confessions, I investigate a particular type of flowing memory – what I call, “perfect” memory – that characterizes the temporally ordered movements of musical rhythm, showing that it is in this type of memory that Augustine finds God.


2011 ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Thomson Jay Hudson
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2017 ◽  
Vol 92 (8) ◽  
pp. 085201
Author(s):  
M B Kim ◽  
J W Neuberger ◽  
W P Schleich

2001 ◽  
Vol 110 (5) ◽  
pp. 2657-2657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark K. Tiede ◽  
Joseph Perkell ◽  
Majid Zandipour ◽  
Melanie Matthies

2020 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 20004
Author(s):  
K. J. C. C. de Lacerda ◽  
J. C. Cressoni ◽  
G. M. Viswanathan ◽  
M. A. A da Silva
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1994 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Bovier ◽  
V�ronique Gayrard ◽  
Pierre Picco

Author(s):  
James Mensch

As Derrida observes, the ideal of a perfect memory has a spectral quality. The desire to achieve it is like the wish of Hanson, the fictional archaeologist, to go beyond the physical remains to grasp the past itself. What seduces us is the thought that remembering is like mechanical reproduction. We forget, however, that a photograph does not remember what we looked like any more than a recording remembers the sound of our voice. Only a living being can remember. Seen in this light, the ultimate problem of the ideal of a perfect memory is that it abstracts remembering from the context in which it functions. In this paper, I argue that this context is that of our embodied being-alive, with all the limitations that this implies. Such limitations impose a teleological structure on our remembering. They determine how memory functions on both an individual and a collective level.Como observa Derrida, el ideal de la memoria perfecta tiene una cualidad espectral. El deseo de conseguirlo es como el de Hanson, el arqueólogo ficticio, de querer ir más allá de los restos físicos para alcanzar el pasado mismo. Nos seduce la idea de que recordar sea como una reproducción mecánica. Olvidamos, sin embargo, que una fotografía no recuerda cómo éramos más de lo que una grabación recuerda el sonido de nuestra voz. Sólo un ser vivo puede recordar. Desde este punto de vista, el problema último del ideal de la memoria perfecta es que abstrae el recordar del contexto en el que éste realizaría su función. En este artículo argumento que dicho contexto es el de nuestro estar-vivos encarnado, con todas las limitaciones que ello implica. Estas limitaciones imponen una estructura teleológica en nuestro recordar. Determinan como funciona la memoria, tanto a nivel individual como colectivo.


1969 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 293-294
Author(s):  
BRUCE R. EKSTRAND
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