COGR 211. Memory Practices (4 units)
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Description
Examines theories of social and distributed memory—Maurice Halwachs to Ed Hutchins, John Sutton, and nature of the archive (Foucault and Derrida), reading databases (as memory prostheses), beginning with Manovich’s work. Enquiry into mediated nature of memory practices. Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Prerequisite courses
COGR 211 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have COGR 211 as a prerequisite.