Discussions about the legacy of the underground movement in modern Philippines often focus on how communities preserved dialogue during politically difficult periods.

Personal narratives from the Martial Law in the Philippines era also highlight family resilience and the unconditional love of mothers in challenging times.

Literary reflections such as Chasing Windmills provide insight... https://www.mayabutalid.com

#PhilippineHistory
#HistoryDiscussion
#LiteraryReflections
#SocialMemory

Chasing Windmills - Political Autobiography Book by Maya Butalid

Discover Chasing Windmills, the powerful political autobiography of Maya Butalid. Follow her journey from Cebu to the Netherlands—activism...

Chasing Windmills
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> Oxytocin may have important effects on social learning and social memory (de Wied, 1997; Popik, Vetulani, & Van Ree, 1992). For example, low doses of oxytocin strengthen social memories, and, as such, oxytocin may play a role in learning and memory for social bonds, infant caregiving, and friendships.
#Oxytocin #SocialLearning #SocialMemory #BioBehavioralOpioids

Today I want to follow up on the post about Brazils initiative to initiate a digital memory policy and capture the digital archive of cultural memory. This is exactly the topic of the paper I shared last week about civic urban memory and utilising the Fediverse model to preserve social interactions about place and culture for posterity, in a publicly owned sphere. This is another article from Braziliana Museums.

#academichatter #urbanism #SocialMemory #academicmastodon

https://brasiliana.museus.gov.br/sobre-a-importancia-de-uma-politica-para-memoria-digital/

Sobre a importância de uma política para memória digital

Neste momento paradigmático de chegada das aplicações de IA (inteligência artificial) ao público em geral, é fundamental e urgente o debate sobre a relação da tecnologia digital com a memória no contexto do patrimônio cultural.

Brasiliana Museus

In the most impressive case, a 46-year-old #bonobo named Louise at the #KumamotoSanctuary in #Japan repeatedly demonstrated "robust" attention upon seeing photographs of her sister Loretta and nephew Erin, whom she hadn't seen in more than 26 years. The team said Louise's results represent the longest-lasting social memory documented in any non-human animal to date. #SocialMemory #Chimpanzees

Chimps and bonobos recognize friends, relatives they haven't seen in decades :
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/26/1221543486/chimps-bonobos-recognize-friends-family-decades-apart

My piece for the Mnemosyne show at gallery AL859 in Porto.

The 2nd picture shows how it was exposed - as an origami cyanotype made of 30 individual pieces.

The 3rd picture shows all the developed individual images opened out.

The exhibited composition reflects how our unique experiences of the same event come together to give us a new, shared, social memory.

#cyanotype #metamorphogram #origami #ModularOrigami #memory #mnemosyne #al859 #porto #portoartist #socialmemory

Quoted in How the Word is Passed by @clintsmithiii.

Few writers in American thinking as deeply about #socialmemory and #justice.

What a book.