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Article: Electronic time: the memory machines of Jim Campbell.
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- Afterimage
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- November 1, 1997
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In the age of computers, the concept of memory has acquired an increasingly strong association with the notion of control. Computer memory is what we intentionally store, something we amp up, make more powerful and deploy to create data bases, which are seen in turn as essential and infinite realms of information. Human memory is now commonly discussed in terms of the computer metaphor, with words like storage and retrieval, and increasingly seen as that which can be harnessed, reconfigured, sped up and expanded.
Yet the concept of memory-as-storage works in tension with the fleeting aspects of the live, transmitted image, at once instant but then ungraspable and ...