LIVING MEMORY
COMMUNITY AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ERA OF NETWORKS

The book explores the relationship between the concepts of memory, community, communication and media from a social and cultural perspective.
Rather than giving a closed and unidirectional perspective on the synergy between these notions which are rapidly changing, the book gives the reader different views and cultural instruments to think about these evolutions.
This book is the result of a three year European research project (Living Memory) and it is a collection of interviews carried out with world-wide communication experts.


Italian edition
Le Vespe Editore
Dec. 2001
Milano, Italy

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Frenche edition
PUL Université de Laval
2005
Montreal, Québec, CA

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Portuguese Edition
Sulina Editore
2005
Porto Alegre, Brazil

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TABLE OF CONTENTSLIVING MEMORY.
COMMUNITY AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ERA OF NETWORKS




Introduction

Federico Casalegno: Introduction
Irene Mc William : Living Memory: the story of the lost cat.


Chapter I
Memory; which evolutions?

Introduction to the 1st chapter: on Memory
Federico Casalegno: The living memory project: an ecological approach of memory.

Dialogue with:

Joël de Rosnay: Memories and inter-creativity.
William J Mitchell : Places, architectures and memories.
Marco Susani: The silent tale of memory.
Serge Moscovici: Memory, rituals and cyber representations.
Gianni Vattimo: Memory, essence of our nature.
Paul Virilio: The paradox of present memory in the cyber age.
Kevin Warwick : Cybernetic memory and networked brains.


Chapter II
Community; which morphologies?

Introduction to the 2nd chapter: on Community

Dialogue with:
Jean Baudrillard: Beyond the principle of social memory.
Edgar Morin: Lived memory for a poetic life.
Michel Maffesoli: Memory, tribes and the enchantment of the world.
Mark Dery : Deconstructing the communitarian memory in the era of interactive media.
Patrick Purcell: : Digital context for communal memory.
Howard Rheingold: Networked memory and social interaction.


Chapter III
Communication; which ways?

Introduction to the 3rd chapter: on Communication
The impossible exchange? Dialogue between Michel Maffesoli and Jean Baudrillard on communication, virtual and community.
Andrea Branzi: Relational memories.
André Akoun: On time.

Dialogue with:

Stefano Marzano: Memories; between genius loci and the experience.
Derrick De Kerckhove: The emerging of a new communitarian physic and the connectives memories.
Pierre Lévy: Memory: a process in the present.
Sherry Turkle: Memories on the screen.