The HBS hosts discuss the role of memory in the constitution of human intelligence, subjectivity and culture/civilization.
As we age, we often lose the ability to retain our past experiences. In doing so, we seem to lose a part (or even all) of our selves. What is the role of memory in the constitution of human intelligence, subjectivity and culture/civilization? In this episode, the HBS hosts discuss memory and its relation to personal identity and social identity. This means that we also confront forgetting.
In this episode, the following works, thinkers, authors, and topics are discussed:
- Florida Governor Desantis ranting at students
- Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz
- Peptok by the students at Westside Elementary School in Healdsberg, CA (707-998-8410)
- The TV series “Grantchester“
- Thomas Reid on “the brave officer” from Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (p.248ff)
- Our episode on superstition
- Plato on memory as wax in the Theaetetus, which Rick WRONGLY attributed to Hobbes (though Rick is sure that Hobbes raises this as well!!)
- Charles Scott, The Time of Memory
- Toni Morrison on “rememory“
- The Truth and Reconiliation processes in Rwanda and South Africa
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Our episode “Whose History“
- The film Still Alice
- John Locke on memory and personal identity from the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 27
