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Ronald Durán Allimant - Remembering with Things, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Remembering with Things

Material Memory, Culture, and Technology

Av Ronald Durán Allimant

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We make our life with things, surrounded by technical artefacts and technologies. They are fundamental in the way we see and act, but only sometimes we are plenty aware of this. Where do these things come from? How were they produced? How do they define our possibilities and our identities? How do they determine the way we remember and project our future? This book explores these and other related questions analysing the relationships between technology, material memory, and forms of life, emphasizing the active and constitutive role that technologies play in our remembering with things. It argues that our common understanding of memory and its technological mediation is determined by a static view of technology, memory, and culture, and that this view is burdened by a dualism between the material and the immaterial, that overlooks the active role of memory and technology in our present forms of life and in the shaping of our future. To overcome this static view and its dualism, this book proposes a dynamic view of memory, technology, and culture, emphasising the active and constitute role of technologies in the shaping of our forms of life and including themes unusual in memory studies, such as the production of technology and the concept of nature. The approach of this book is theoretical and philosophical, but interdisciplinary, incorporating ideas and concepts from various disciplines, particularly the arts, humanities and social sciences.
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Ronald Durán-Allimant is professor of philosophy at the University of Playa Ancha. His main research interests are the philosophical study of nature, time, and life incorporating scientific and technological ideas, and their ethical and political dimensions.

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In Remembering with Things, Dura´n Allimant offers a fresh take on approaches to material culture and technological artifacts. He specifically challenges what he calls an “artisanal paradigm of process and production,” which sees immaterial spirit implant upon unformed physical objects, thus separating the material and immaterial in a way that “ignores the active and constitute role that material things and technical artifacts play in the shaping of forms of life” (p. x). The author does this by incorporating memory—a “disciplinary cross-fertilizer” that links academic knowledge with everyday life (p. xi)—into his phenomenological approach to material culture and technical artifacts. However, while Dura´n Allimant proposes that his text would be accessible to non-specialists across disciplines, especially in science and technology studies, it sits more comfortably within the realm of philosophy, especially philosophy of technology, rather than in a broader science and technology field. That said, for students of memory studies and of philosophy of technology, this book expands the scope of memory, culture, and technology. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.

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