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In a work reminiscent of Frances Yates' (1966), Fentress and Wickham argue that artificial memory systems went on the wane after Descartes. "Instead of a search for the perfectly proportioned image containing the 'soul' of the knowledge to be remembered, the emphasis was on the discovery of the right logical category. The memory of this system of logical categories and scientific causes would exempt the individual from the necessity of remembering everything in detail. . . . The problem of memorizing the world, characteristic of the sixteenth century, evolved into the problem of classifying it scientifically." |
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(James Fentress and Chris Wickham 1992, 13) |
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built into the infrastructure (the work environment is changed such that the modality is never encountered); or simply dismissed. Looking at ways of distributing memory and operating forgetting we can, therefore, look in more fine-grained detail at what happens as the representation moves into and out of circulation. |
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Clearance is a strategy employed internally within the profession of nursing as a tool for providing an origin for the science of nursing. Erasure is employed externally on the profession of nursing as a tool for rendering nursing a transparent distributed memory system. The logic of the relationship between clearance and erasure has been that the nurses are operating the clearance of their own past in order to combat the erasure of their present in the records of medical organizations. Medical information systems, they argue, should represent the profession of nursing as if it just began yesterday. Otherwise, they will copy the transparency of nursing activity from one representational space (the hospital floor and paper archives) to another (the electronic record). This poses, then, the question of what happens when a new ecology of attention (what can be forgotten and what should be remembered) is inaugurated with the development of a new information infrastructure. |
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Memoryindividual and organizationalis in general filtered through classification systems. Such systems permit encoding of multiple bits of information about the environment into a single coherent framework (see Schachter 1996, 98133). Edouard Clarapède (who performed the initial notorious experiment of having a stranger rush into the classroom, do something outrageous, and then have students |
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