In a very positive move, the #philosophy of #memory writing at The Memory Palace is now being translated into Spanish!

The first five articles are now available in... El Palacio de la Memoria!

https://thememorypalacephil.substack.com/s/el-palacio-de-la-memoria

#philosophyOfMemory

#PortfolioDay !!!

I'm a British artist living in #Porto.
Theories of #philosophy of #memory inspire my #cyanotype #origami and #stitchwork creations.

Currently working on #Situationist International studies of cities and maps, and philosophy of cultural memory. Would love to collaborate with a #cartographer or #architect ...

Find more of my work here... https://alunkirby.com/

Thank you!

#PortoArt #PortoArtist #Cameraless #cameralessPhotography #Memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #Sashiko #Debord

Latest post from The Memory Palace

Nostalgia and Grief - in which I learnt that 'the term “nostalgia” derives from “nostos” meaning (return to the homeland) compounded with “algos” meaning suffering or grief'

Johannes Hofer, who coined the term in 1934, described nostalgia as “the grief for the lost charm of the Native Land”

#nostalgia #grief #memory #philosophy #PhilosophyOfMemory

https://thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/nostalgia-and-grief?publication_id=2254296&post_id=165560208

A very tender, thoughtful article, superficially about photography, but mostly about memory, grief and our relationship with time.

Perhaps seeing photography not as capturing the present, but creating the past.

https://www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/polaroid-death-machine/

CW for Covid-19 and pandemic related content.
By Mike Scalise.

#photography #polaroid #sx70 #memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #philosophy #GeorgiaReview #MikeScalise #covid #grief

I'm enjoying the regular articles on The Memory Palace, written by academics in Philosophy of Memory.

The latest discusses whether memory is a 'natural kind' or 'social kind'.

That is, is memory based solely on neurology and other biological systems?

Or is memory something that exists in the context of social structures, like love or gender?

https://thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/a-social-critical-metaphysics-of

#memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #philosophy #MemoryPalace

Some more cyanotypes from the last few days. It's not been sunny, but enough UV light gets through the clouds to drive the reaction.

Having said that, some of these exposures run into days...

#cyanotype
#blueprint
#origami
#metamorphogram
#memory
#PhilosophyOfMemory #reeds #waves #longexposure #abstract #cameraless #cameralessPhotography

I have been back making cyanotypes.

Each of of these cyanotypes is a literal memory (as defined by my first philosophy of memory publication!).

Artist life has been hard lately. No change there, really, but it helps to make things.

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #metamorphogram #memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #orizuru

An example of how institutionally-curated memories can create a perfect, yet completely fake, cultural identity for an entire nation.

Really thought-provoking.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/30/israel-and-the-delusions-of-germanys-memory-culture

#philosophy #PhilosophyOfMemory #CulturalIdentity #Memory #CulturalMemory #Fascism #Israel #Nazi #Germany #TheGuardian

Philosophy of Memory resources...

The Memory Palace - a blog of current themes in PhilMem

https://thememorypalacephil.substack.com/

and

PhilMemBib - searchable bibliography of PhilMem papers with simple download links wherever available

https://phil-mem.org/philmembib.html

Also PhilPapers for general philosophy searches. Shocking how many papers are NOT Open Access, but a quick email to the corresponding author works every time.

https://philpapers.org/

#PhilosophyOfMemory #philosophy #OpenAccess #Memory

The Memory Palace
https://thememorypalacephil.substack.com/

A new blog about philosophy of memory, set up by Prof. Sarah Robins (https://www.sarahkrobins.com/) and Dr. Marta Carava (https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/marta-carav%C3%A0.html)

Latest post is by Prof. John Sutton! https://johnsutton.net/

#philosophy #philosophyofmemory #philosophyOfMind #memory #mindpalace #memorypalace