La obsesión por la memoria frente a la sincronicidad de los soportes mnémicos

Abstract

This paper aims to offer an interpretation of theconditions and implications of the memory culturethat has characterized, since the eighties, the rela-tions that Western societies maintain with their past. Drawing on the philosophy of history, but using conceptual tools from other fields, we interpret the limits of this emphasis on the past based on the peculiarities of the material media that have en-abled it. This thesis rejects the understanding of this memory boom either as an attempt to establish a premodern relationship with the past or as a mere reaction to the crisis of the future, evidenced in the late the 20th century. Rather, we construe it as a movement to counter the application of an obsolescence pace, which is characteristic of the current western model of informa-tion consumption, to our past.

Keywords

• memory culture
• postmemory
• technique
• mass media
• synchrony
• consumer society
• philosophy of history