The Algorithmic Past – The Third Way of Memory

The Algorithmic Past – The Third Way of Memory

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Horizon 2020 European Training Network POEM
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University of Glasgow
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Glasgow
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United Kingdom
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H2020 European Training Network POEM

Join the H2020 European Training Network POEM on 26th March at the University of Glasgow for a public talk by Prof. Andrew Hoskins who will discuss memory in today’s complex media ecology.

DATE: March 26th 2019 (09:30 - 10:30)
VENUE: Kelvin Hall, Lecture Theatre (1445, Argyle Street Glasgow, United Kingdom)
REGISTER on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-algorithmic-past-the-third-way-of-memory-tickets-57078022903

This event is free to attend!

ABOUT THE PUBLIC TALK:
A paradoxically connected but atomised media ecology, the living archive of social media – a constantly evolving record of the everyday – defies traditional categories and certainties of media provenance, ownership, duration and decay.

User-generated needs and the embrace of the digital values of openness appear to liberate archives from the bounds of space and from organisations and elites, and yet the past is also caught up in the algorithmic narrowing of information, knowledge, and life. The haste for the former (the digitization of everything) seems at the expense of the latter (comprehension of the risks related to ownership, use, access, costs and finitude of digital data).

This presentation asks what are the prospects for human remembering and forgetting under these conditions. To this end, I explore the long implicit binary or separation between accounts of roughly human (cognitive) and exteriorised (social, cultural, collective) memory. The former (in the head) is seen as mostly active, whereas the latter (in the wild) never ‘did anything to itself’ in that it was seen as reliant on human agents to make it active. I ask: do algorithms and so-called artificial intelligence (AI) offer memory a ‘third way’, beyond its established domains (in the head, and in the wild)?

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Andrew Hoskins is Interdisciplinary Research Professor in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK. His latest books are: (Ed) Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition (Routledge 2018) and (with John Tulloch): Risk and Hyperconnectivity: Media and Memories of Neoliberalism (Oxford University Press 2016). He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Sage journal of Memory Studies and founding Co-Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series Memory Studies. His current OUP project is ‘Memory in the Head and in the Wild’ with Amanda Barnier: https://memorywild.com/about/.
@andrewhoskins @memorywild

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Samantha Lutz
Universität Hamburg

hello.poem.gwiss@uni-hamburg.de

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