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Oblivion
“Remembering or forgetting is doing gardener’s work, selecting, pruning. Memories are like there are those that need to be quickly eliminated in order to help the others burgeon, transform, flower.” For the health of the psyche and the culture, for the individual and the whole society, oblivion is as necessary as memory. One must know how to forget, Marc Augé suggests, not just to live fully in the present but also to comprehend the past. Renowned as an anthropologist and an innovative social thinker, Augé’s meditation moves from how forgetting the present or recent past enables us to return to earlier pasts, to how forgetting propels us into the present, and finally to how forgetting becomes a necessary part of survival. Oblivion moves with authority and ease among a wide variety of sources—literature, common experience, psychoanalysis, philosophy, ethnography—to illustrate the interplay of memory and forgetting in the stories of life and death told across many cultures and many times. Memory and oblivion, he concludes, cannot be “Memories are crafted by oblivion as the outlines of the shore are created by the sea.”
112 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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Marc Augé
117 books174 followersMarc Augé is a French anthropologist. His career can be divided into three stages, reflecting shifts in both his geographical focus and theoretical development: early (African), middle (European) and late (Global). These successive stages do not involve a broadening of interest or focus as such, but rather the development of a theoretical apparatus able to meet the demands of the growing conviction that the local can no longer be understood except as a part of the complicated global whole.
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February 10, 2020
"Şimdiki zamanda kalmak için unutmak, ölmemek için unutmak, sadık kalmak için unutmak gerekir."
"Sonuç olarak unutma belleğin canlı gücü, anı ise ürünüdür."
Son zamanın benim için favori yazarı Augé'den kurgu dışı bir şeyler okumak da güzeldi. Yaşsız Zaman'ı umarım bulabilirim...
Etnoloji ile ilgili pek fikrim olmasa da ilgimi bir çok yerde çeken küçücük bir kitap olmuş...
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"Sonuç olarak unutma belleğin canlı gücü, anı ise ürünüdür."
Son zamanın benim için favori yazarı Augé'den kurgu dışı bir şeyler okumak da güzeldi. Yaşsız Zaman'ı umarım bulabilirim...
Etnoloji ile ilgili pek fikrim olmasa da ilgimi bir çok yerde çeken küçücük bir kitap olmuş...
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October 21, 2022
Fil hafızalının biri olarak bu kitabı neden hiçbir şeyi unutamadığımı anlamak için almıştım aslında; bunun yerine neden kurgu şeyler okumayı bu kadar çok sevdiğimi öğrendim. Bu da güzel bence.
June 1, 2022
Sadakatini kaybetmeyen yolcuyu yani biz okuru, kitapla işbirliğine davet ederek, varlığını sürdüren bir şimdiki zamana uzanmak olanağını vaat ediyor.
Tekrar okunacak! Çünkü; “ yeniden okumak, öngörmeksizin yeniden yaşamak, daha önce görülmüş olanın bıraktığı izlenimi onun ortaya çıkışını izlemekten vazgeçmeksizin geliştirmektir.”
Daha ne olsun:)
Tekrar okunacak! Çünkü; “ yeniden okumak, öngörmeksizin yeniden yaşamak, daha önce görülmüş olanın bıraktığı izlenimi onun ortaya çıkışını izlemekten vazgeçmeksizin geliştirmektir.”
Daha ne olsun:)
May 14, 2025
hayatımda okuduğum en ilham verici metinlerden biri, notlarımı temize çekicem ve edebiyatta unutmak ve hatırlamak hakkında düşünücem. en çok yazdığım muhabbet hakkında bu kadar açıklayıcı ve net bir kitap olması felaket etkiledi
June 14, 2019
kesinlikle okuduğum en doyurucu metinlerdendi...
April 21, 2024
"Llevar a cabo el elogio del olvido no implica vilipendiar la memoria, y mucho menos aún ignorar el recuerdo, sino reconocer el trabajo del olvido en la primera y detectar su presencia en el segundo. La memoria y el olvido guardan en cierto modo la misma relación que la vida y la muerte."
May 24, 2022
Marc Auge'nin unutmaya antropolojik açıdan yaklaştığı ve dil, edebiyat,ruhsallık alanlarında incelediği Unutma Biçimleri kısa ama etkileyici bir kurgu dışı kıtap.
"Unutmak,toplum için olduğu kadar birey için de bir zorunluluktur." Unutarak affediyor, yeniyi yaratıyor, anımsamayı bile unutarak başarıyoruz.
Hayli ilginç fikirleri,biraz karmaşık diliyle ufuk açıcı bir kitap.
"Unutmak,toplum için olduğu kadar birey için de bir zorunluluktur." Unutarak affediyor, yeniyi yaratıyor, anımsamayı bile unutarak başarıyoruz.
Hayli ilginç fikirleri,biraz karmaşık diliyle ufuk açıcı bir kitap.
March 23, 2016
TELL ME WHAT YOU FORGET AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE (p 18)
This book is three short chapters followed by a love note. Chapter 1 is gorgeous and a little life changing. RECOMMENDED. I'll share below some of its gems.
Chapter 2 is mediocre French theory that put ME into oblivion three night this week - a sweet sedative for crossing over to the dreamworld. So the supposed intellectual meat is instead an incantation! Chapter 3 is on the relationship of forgetting to past, present and future. I had been happy Auge' could write this book without talking a lot of Proust and Dumas, but no, here's the discourse on Temps Perdu. There IS one very good idea here, but not the content/creativity ratio of Chapter 1.
Chapter one introduces the concept of oblivion as something far deeper than forgetting. It's as mystical as intellectuals get, pointing to the place things go when they disappear. Auge' ranges over the blessings of a bad memory, and the ways that forgetting the recent past is what gives us a relationship to the ancient past. And, wonderfully, he writes of dreams.
Like this:
"... the adventures of the dream prolong those of the previous day - thus making the previous day and the dream a continuous thought called upon to be the subject of a same account that can be completely refined ONLY BY THE PERSON WHO IS STRONG AND LUCID ENUOGH TO REMEMBER all the details of his or her nocturnal life.... Europeans are AVERSE TO acquiring an AWARENESS OF THEIR OWN 'PSYCHOTIC CORE' and the best proof of this is that they have a tendency to forget their dreams" (p 12, emphasis mine)
Radically, Chapter 1 offers a naturalistic view of western mind. It's wonderful and rare for this context, and beautiful above all else. (Auge' is a slightly offensive anthropologist of less developed cultures, so perhaps he is well accustomed to seeing more "savage" minds as continuous with nature.) Forgetting and remembering - disappearing and reconstitution - are discussed as plants, as wave forms, as earth.
Like this:
"It is quite clear that our memory would be 'saturated' rapidly if we had to preserve every image of our childhood, especially those of our earliest childhood. But what is interesting ins that which remains. And what remain - remembrances or traces, we shall come back to that - what remains is the product of an erosion caused by oblivion. Memories are crafted by oblivion as the outlines of the shore are crafted by the sea." (p 20)
Chapter 1 brings an uncanny feeling for the relationship of forgetting - moreover, of OBLIVION - and death. But the relationship is reciprocal (this is a weirdly mystical notion). Disappearance is the little death that life needs to renew itself constantly.
Auge' is BEING mystical here. Chapter 1 transmits this with uncanny Marxian sharpness I don't see when the same point is made in Zen or Yoga: "Oblivion is the life force of memory, and remembrance is its product." (p 21)
Viola'.
This book is three short chapters followed by a love note. Chapter 1 is gorgeous and a little life changing. RECOMMENDED. I'll share below some of its gems.
Chapter 2 is mediocre French theory that put ME into oblivion three night this week - a sweet sedative for crossing over to the dreamworld. So the supposed intellectual meat is instead an incantation! Chapter 3 is on the relationship of forgetting to past, present and future. I had been happy Auge' could write this book without talking a lot of Proust and Dumas, but no, here's the discourse on Temps Perdu. There IS one very good idea here, but not the content/creativity ratio of Chapter 1.
Chapter one introduces the concept of oblivion as something far deeper than forgetting. It's as mystical as intellectuals get, pointing to the place things go when they disappear. Auge' ranges over the blessings of a bad memory, and the ways that forgetting the recent past is what gives us a relationship to the ancient past. And, wonderfully, he writes of dreams.
Like this:
"... the adventures of the dream prolong those of the previous day - thus making the previous day and the dream a continuous thought called upon to be the subject of a same account that can be completely refined ONLY BY THE PERSON WHO IS STRONG AND LUCID ENUOGH TO REMEMBER all the details of his or her nocturnal life.... Europeans are AVERSE TO acquiring an AWARENESS OF THEIR OWN 'PSYCHOTIC CORE' and the best proof of this is that they have a tendency to forget their dreams" (p 12, emphasis mine)
Radically, Chapter 1 offers a naturalistic view of western mind. It's wonderful and rare for this context, and beautiful above all else. (Auge' is a slightly offensive anthropologist of less developed cultures, so perhaps he is well accustomed to seeing more "savage" minds as continuous with nature.) Forgetting and remembering - disappearing and reconstitution - are discussed as plants, as wave forms, as earth.
Like this:
"It is quite clear that our memory would be 'saturated' rapidly if we had to preserve every image of our childhood, especially those of our earliest childhood. But what is interesting ins that which remains. And what remain - remembrances or traces, we shall come back to that - what remains is the product of an erosion caused by oblivion. Memories are crafted by oblivion as the outlines of the shore are crafted by the sea." (p 20)
Chapter 1 brings an uncanny feeling for the relationship of forgetting - moreover, of OBLIVION - and death. But the relationship is reciprocal (this is a weirdly mystical notion). Disappearance is the little death that life needs to renew itself constantly.
Auge' is BEING mystical here. Chapter 1 transmits this with uncanny Marxian sharpness I don't see when the same point is made in Zen or Yoga: "Oblivion is the life force of memory, and remembrance is its product." (p 21)
Viola'.
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December 28, 2022Me lo compré para reconciliarme con el olvido y ahora mi aprehensión es todavía más profunda. Gracias, Marc, en realidad nunca quise dejar de ser la nostálgica por antonomasia.
February 10, 2025
https://youtu.be/NGyyECdniGY?si=7Xnhj...
unutma biçimleri (Les formes de l’oubli 🇫🇷 2001)
Marc Augé (1935-2023, 87y)
Çeviren: Mehmet Sert
Marc Augé 1935 doğumlu Fransız bir antropolog. Birçok kitabı olan yazar 2023 yılında 87yaşındayken aramızdan ayrıldı. Bu benim okuduğum 4. Marc Augé kitabı.
Bu kitap ..insan zihninin karanlık tarafına kısa bir yolculuk.. kitabın bir bölümünde 3 ayrı unutma biçimi olan ‘geriye dönme’, ‘erteleme’ ve ‘yeniden başlama’ya değiniliyor..
Kitapta..
..şu anın ve bekleyişin tadına varmak için unutmayı bilmek gerekir..
..bana unuttuğun şeyi söyle, sana kim olduğunu söyleyeyim..
..şimdiki zamanda kalmak için UNUTMAK, ölmemek için UNUTMAK, sadık kalmak için UNUTMAK gerekir.. deniyor..
unutmanın hem ihtiyaç hem de zorunluluk olduğu ifade ediliyor..
Unutma konusundan müzdarip arkadaşlara bu kitap iyi gelebilir. Çünkü unutmak kısa vadede işlerimizi kısıtlasa da uzun vadede sanki yaşamamıza kalite katıyor, hayatın tadına vardırıyor… çünkü ‘kötü bir bellek, her şeyi yenileştirip gençleştirir’..
çünkü ‘unutma belleğin canlı gücü, anı ise ürünüdür’..
unutma biçimleri (Les formes de l’oubli 🇫🇷 2001)
Marc Augé (1935-2023, 87y)
Çeviren: Mehmet Sert
Marc Augé 1935 doğumlu Fransız bir antropolog. Birçok kitabı olan yazar 2023 yılında 87yaşındayken aramızdan ayrıldı. Bu benim okuduğum 4. Marc Augé kitabı.
Bu kitap ..insan zihninin karanlık tarafına kısa bir yolculuk.. kitabın bir bölümünde 3 ayrı unutma biçimi olan ‘geriye dönme’, ‘erteleme’ ve ‘yeniden başlama’ya değiniliyor..
Kitapta..
..şu anın ve bekleyişin tadına varmak için unutmayı bilmek gerekir..
..bana unuttuğun şeyi söyle, sana kim olduğunu söyleyeyim..
..şimdiki zamanda kalmak için UNUTMAK, ölmemek için UNUTMAK, sadık kalmak için UNUTMAK gerekir.. deniyor..
unutmanın hem ihtiyaç hem de zorunluluk olduğu ifade ediliyor..
Unutma konusundan müzdarip arkadaşlara bu kitap iyi gelebilir. Çünkü unutmak kısa vadede işlerimizi kısıtlasa da uzun vadede sanki yaşamamıza kalite katıyor, hayatın tadına vardırıyor… çünkü ‘kötü bir bellek, her şeyi yenileştirip gençleştirir’..
çünkü ‘unutma belleğin canlı gücü, anı ise ürünüdür’..
May 19, 2022
Kitap unutma kavramını daha çok zaman üzerinden inceliyor. İnsanın şimdiki zamandan uzaklaşmak için zihninde yaptığı geçmişe dönük yolculuklar, hayata yeniden başlamak için geçmişin üstüne örtme biçimimiz hep unutmak istediğimiz şeylerin sonucunda ortaya çıkar. Ya da şimdiki zamandan kurtulmak için kendimizi özendiğimiz kişilerin ( Zengin birinin yerine geçme) yerine koymaya çalışırız. Bunların hepsi zamandan sıyrılıp bir şekilde içinde bulunduğumuz durumu unutmaya yönelik eylemlerdir. Aslında daha çok felsefi bir yaklaşım var kitapta. Ben daha önce unutma üzerine nörolojik bir kitap da okuduğum için benim için faydalı oldu ama ilgisi olmayanları sıkabilir.
August 29, 2021
Augé’nin elimdeki kitaplarının sonuna geldim. Edebiyata olan tutkusuyla kendisi de oldukça kurmaca bir anlatı kuruyor: Bu metodu da çok kafa açıcı.
Başkalarının kurmaca içinde yaşadıklarını öne süren bakış açısının tek yanlılığını ifşa ediyor. Hayır, sadece başkaları değil sen de ben de kurmaca içinde yaşıyoruz diyor.
Kurmacalarımız birbirlerinden farklı. Daha da ileri giderek değil mi ki birkaç anlatıda birden yaşadığımızı da hatırlatıyor. Herbirinde birbirinden farklı kaç rolle yaşanıyor bu hayat! Haklı mı? Haklı.
Bu haklılık, bence de “kendi mutsuzluğunun hikayesinden başka her şeye gözünü, kulağını kapamış birilerine” çare, buluş niteliğinde. Aslolan kendi yaşadığımız kurmacaların farkına nasıl varacağız? Augé’ye göre bireysel ve kolektif yaşamın en önemli kurmaca uygulayıcısı, işlemcisi ‘unutma.’ Gerisi, ötesi çeşit çeşit, biçim biçim, kaleme alınmış.
Okuyunuz.
Başkalarının kurmaca içinde yaşadıklarını öne süren bakış açısının tek yanlılığını ifşa ediyor. Hayır, sadece başkaları değil sen de ben de kurmaca içinde yaşıyoruz diyor.
Kurmacalarımız birbirlerinden farklı. Daha da ileri giderek değil mi ki birkaç anlatıda birden yaşadığımızı da hatırlatıyor. Herbirinde birbirinden farklı kaç rolle yaşanıyor bu hayat! Haklı mı? Haklı.
Bu haklılık, bence de “kendi mutsuzluğunun hikayesinden başka her şeye gözünü, kulağını kapamış birilerine” çare, buluş niteliğinde. Aslolan kendi yaşadığımız kurmacaların farkına nasıl varacağız? Augé’ye göre bireysel ve kolektif yaşamın en önemli kurmaca uygulayıcısı, işlemcisi ‘unutma.’ Gerisi, ötesi çeşit çeşit, biçim biçim, kaleme alınmış.
Okuyunuz.
May 20, 2024
Hatırlama ve unutma üzerinde düşündüğüm, zaman zaman beni çok yoran alanlar, dolayısıyla Marc Auge’nin yazdıklarını ilgiyle okudum.
“Unutmak, toplum için olduğu kadar birey için de bir zorunluluktur” diye söze başlayan Auge kitapta antropoloji, etnografya, felsefe, inanç, edebiyat üzerinden unutmanın biçimlerini, önemini anlatmış. Kolay bir metin değil, ancak benim için zihin açıcı oldu.
“Unutmak, toplum için olduğu kadar birey için de bir zorunluluktur” diye söze başlayan Auge kitapta antropoloji, etnografya, felsefe, inanç, edebiyat üzerinden unutmanın biçimlerini, önemini anlatmış. Kolay bir metin değil, ancak benim için zihin açıcı oldu.
December 12, 2024
Anılar, hatırlama, yaşam ve unutma üzerine güzel bir anlatı 🌿
Marc Augé antropolog olması nedeniyle konuyu insanlık tarihi açısından derinlemesine ele alıyor. İlk bölümde kendisinin de belirttiği gibi konudan biraz uzaklaşarak başlıyoruz. Bana göre bu durum ilk bölümleri biraz yorucu hale getirse de, son iki bölüm gerçekten iyi ki okudum dedirtiyor.
Listeye alanlara keyifli okumalar 📚
“Unutma bizi şimdiki zamana getirir; ancak bu onun bütün zamanlarda çekimlenmesine bir engel oluşturmaz: Yeniden başlama’yı yaşamak için gelecek zamanda; şu anı yaşamak için şimdiki zamanda; geri dönüşü yaşamak için di’li geçmiş zamanda çekimlenir. Şimdiki zamanda kalmak için unutmak, ölmemek için unutmak, sadık kalmak için unutmak gerekir.”
Marc Augé antropolog olması nedeniyle konuyu insanlık tarihi açısından derinlemesine ele alıyor. İlk bölümde kendisinin de belirttiği gibi konudan biraz uzaklaşarak başlıyoruz. Bana göre bu durum ilk bölümleri biraz yorucu hale getirse de, son iki bölüm gerçekten iyi ki okudum dedirtiyor.
Listeye alanlara keyifli okumalar 📚
“Unutma bizi şimdiki zamana getirir; ancak bu onun bütün zamanlarda çekimlenmesine bir engel oluşturmaz: Yeniden başlama’yı yaşamak için gelecek zamanda; şu anı yaşamak için şimdiki zamanda; geri dönüşü yaşamak için di’li geçmiş zamanda çekimlenir. Şimdiki zamanda kalmak için unutmak, ölmemek için unutmak, sadık kalmak için unutmak gerekir.”
June 20, 2023
Unutma biçimleri üç başlıkta inceleniyor. Öncelikle insan hayatında nasıl unutur, gerçekte nasıldır diye bahsedilip sanatta ve edebi anlatımda olay örgüsü içinde okuyucuya nasıl aktarım yapılır, bundan bahsediliyor. Son olarak ise unutmanın yapısı, geri dönme - erteleme- yeniden başlama döngüsü anlatılıyor.
*"Şimdiki zamanda kalmak için unutmak, ölmemek için unutmak, sadık kalmak için unutmak gerekir."
*"Şimdiki zamanda kalmak için unutmak, ölmemek için unutmak, sadık kalmak için unutmak gerekir."
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December 4, 2023"Aşkı ölümün etkisine terk eden şey, unutma ve gelecek takıntısıdır: çünkü seven insan bir gün artık sevmez olacaktır ve bu onun açısından "bir tür ölüm" demektir. Aşkın korkunun eline terk eden şey de anımsama ve geçmiş takıntısıdır; çünkü geriye dönük kıskançlık, ihanet ve kötülük işaretleri bulmaktan geri kalmayacaktır"
May 24, 2021
Il testo di Augè aiuta a comprendere una verità forse poco approfondita: la necessità di dimenticare per poter davvero ricordare. La selezione del ricordo, come esso necessiti di varie manipolazioni per poter divenire l'oggetto della nostra identificazione. Molto interessante.
November 20, 2020
Bir deneme daha çok. Birkaç nokta güzel ama derli toplu bir görüş ifade edilmemiş.
December 28, 2020
Un libro multidisciplinario, logra conjuntar antropología con psicología y neurociencias. Es de los textos más lindos que le he leído a Augé
May 11, 2023
unutmak bir görevdir belki de.
June 23, 2023
Esperaba mucho más, un capitulo se hace completamente agobiante, sin embargo, tiene partes que son bastante rescatables e interesantes
July 6, 2025
Bon bah c'est bien un ca fait plaiz. Arrêtez d'écrire de façon cryptique par contre on dirait que vous le faites exprès
November 22, 2021
everything concerning memory and oblivion, and the last chapter especially slaps. has some real thought provoking bits that made me stop and just /think/. but it can get kinda weird when it dwells in the ethnological investigation parts (uncomfortably too positive view of the impact of colonialism on ”creating new narratives” for example).
solid 3.5 ⭐️
solid 3.5 ⭐️
February 3, 2013
Congrats to me! I'm finished. Not easy to read, not easy to rate. 4 Stars for insisting that i have to improve my reading skill a lot! TOT
"คำนิยามที่ว่า การลืมเลือนคือความทรงจำที่สูญหายไปนั้น มีความหมายอีกแง่หนึ่งทันทีที่เรารับรู้มันในฐานะส่วนประกอบของระบบความจำ กล่าวคือ ค่อนข้างชัดเจนว่าระบบความจำของเราจะเต็มสมบูรณ์ (saturated) อย่างรวดเร็ว หากเราจำต้องรับรู้ภาพเหตุการณ์ในวัยเด็กทุกๆ ภาพ โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งช่วงที่ยังเป็นทารก [...] สิ่งที่น่าสนใจก็คือสิ่งที่หลงเหลืออยู่ และสิ่งที่หลงเหลืออยู่ [...] ก็คือผลผลิตของการกัดเซาะโดยการลืมเลือน ระบบความจำจึงถูกสรรค์สร้างด้วยการลืมเลือน เช่นเดียวกับที่ชายฝั่งถูกสรรค์สร้างด้วยทะเล [...] การลืมเลือนก็คือพลังชีวิตของระบบความจำ และความทรงจำก็คือผลผลิตของมัน"- Marc Augé
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สิ่งที่จารึกในจิต (mind) ของเรา ไม่ใช่ความทรงจำ ทว่าเป็นร่องรอย หรือสัญลักษณ์ของการหายไปของบางสิ่ง (the absence) โดยปราศจากการลืม ร่องรอยเหล่านี้ก็ไม่สามารถแยกแยะออกมาได้ และถึงที่สุด มันจะไร้ความหมาย การไม่ลืมอะไรเลยจึงทำให้เราไม่สามารถเรียนรู้ความหมายของสิ่งที่เราจดจำได้ นั่นเอง
Marc เสนอว่าการลืมประกอบด้วย 3 รูปแบบหลัก ได้แก่ การหวนคืน (the return) กล่าวคือ ย้อนกลับไปสู่อดีตที่ผ่านไปนานแล้ว ด้วยการลืมปัจจุบันหรืออดีตที่เกิดขึ้นไม่นานนัก การระงับ (the suspension) คือ การตัดขาดปัจจุบันจากอดีตและอนาคต การเริ่มต้นใหม่ (the rebeginning) ซึ่งก็คือ การถือกำเนิดของอนาคตด้วยการลืมทุกสิ่งที่ผ่านมา
ความคลุมเครือประการหนึ่งเกี่ยวพันกับการแสดงออกของ 'หน้าที่ในการจดจำ' ผู้ที่ตกอยู่ใต้อำนาจของมัน ไม่ใช่ผู้เป็นเหยือหรือพยานของเหตุการณ์หนึ่ง เพราะเห็นได้ชัดว่า ผู้รอดชีวิตจากการฆ่าล้างเผ่าพันธ์ไม่จำเป็นต้องถูกเตือนว่าพวกเขาต้องจำอะไร มีหน้าที่จดจำอะไร ในทางกลับกัน หน้าที่ของพวกเขาอาจเป็นการเอาตัวรอดจากความทรงจำ หลีกหนีจากภาพปรากฎอันไม่รู้จบของประสบการณ์อันมิอาจบอกเล่า
"คำนิยามที่ว่า การลืมเลือนคือความทรงจำที่สูญหายไปนั้น มีความหมายอีกแง่หนึ่งทันทีที่เรารับรู้มันในฐานะส่วนประกอบของระบบความจำ กล่าวคือ ค่อนข้างชัดเจนว่าระบบความจำของเราจะเต็มสมบูรณ์ (saturated) อย่างรวดเร็ว หากเราจำต้องรับรู้ภาพเหตุการณ์ในวัยเด็กทุกๆ ภาพ โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งช่วงที่ยังเป็นทารก [...] สิ่งที่น่าสนใจก็คือสิ่งที่หลงเหลืออยู่ และสิ่งที่หลงเหลืออยู่ [...] ก็คือผลผลิตของการกัดเซาะโดยการลืมเลือน ระบบความจำจึงถูกสรรค์สร้างด้วยการลืมเลือน เช่นเดียวกับที่ชายฝั่งถูกสรรค์สร้างด้วยทะเล [...] การลืมเลือนก็คือพลังชีวิตของระบบความจำ และความทรงจำก็คือผลผลิตของมัน"- Marc Augé
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สิ่งที่จารึกในจิต (mind) ของเรา ไม่ใช่ความทรงจำ ทว่าเป็นร่องรอย หรือสัญลักษณ์ของการหายไปของบางสิ่ง (the absence) โดยปราศจากการลืม ร่องรอยเหล่านี้ก็ไม่สามารถแยกแยะออกมาได้ และถึงที่สุด มันจะไร้ความหมาย การไม่ลืมอะไรเลยจึงทำให้เราไม่สามารถเรียนรู้ความหมายของสิ่งที่เราจดจำได้ นั่นเอง
Marc เสนอว่าการลืมประกอบด้วย 3 รูปแบบหลัก ได้แก่ การหวนคืน (the return) กล่าวคือ ย้อนกลับไปสู่อดีตที่ผ่านไปนานแล้ว ด้วยการลืมปัจจุบันหรืออดีตที่เกิดขึ้นไม่นานนัก การระงับ (the suspension) คือ การตัดขาดปัจจุบันจากอดีตและอนาคต การเริ่มต้นใหม่ (the rebeginning) ซึ่งก็คือ การถือกำเนิดของอนาคตด้วยการลืมทุกสิ่งที่ผ่านมา
ความคลุมเครือประการหนึ่งเกี่ยวพันกับการแสดงออกของ 'หน้าที่ในการจดจำ' ผู้ที่ตกอยู่ใต้อำนาจของมัน ไม่ใช่ผู้เป็นเหยือหรือพยานของเหตุการณ์หนึ่ง เพราะเห็นได้ชัดว่า ผู้รอดชีวิตจากการฆ่าล้างเผ่าพันธ์ไม่จำเป็นต้องถูกเตือนว่าพวกเขาต้องจำอะไร มีหน้าที่จดจำอะไร ในทางกลับกัน หน้าที่ของพวกเขาอาจเป็นการเอาตัวรอดจากความทรงจำ หลีกหนีจากภาพปรากฎอันไม่รู้จบของประสบการณ์อันมิอาจบอกเล่า
July 25, 2016
A long essay on forgetting, with few thoughts that I thought were valuable
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