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I missed posting this poem on World AIDS Day yesterday. It's about the struggle (and obligation) to remember, especially as people leave one after another around us in a short period of time. As happened in the 1980s and 1990s in the height of the AIDS years, when so many died so quickly, lives considered negligible and not worth remembering by some of us….

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William Hirst says that a #narrative that leaves out information “induces forgetting of the unmentioned material.”

#Talking about other parts of the story actively leads people to forget what is not discussed. “We seem to have a brain that is designed to build a collective memory around collective remembering and collective forgetting,” he explains. “Why? It’s adaptive. We’re social creatures oriented toward our in-group and away from out-groups. Memory is designed to reinforce our in-group membership.”

motherjones.com/politics/2024/ @psychology @socialpsych @histodons

Mother JonesMillions have amnesia about the worst of Trump's presidency. Memory experts explain why.How Trump is benefiting from the limits of our memory.

The event "Whispers from the Past: Collective #Remembering" will be hosted by the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities" (#EXC2020) and the internationales literaturfestival berlin on September 10, 2024.

📌Further Information: avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/det #fidavlnews @litstudies

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