Lexicon

Abject
Accretion
Actant
Aeration
Aerobic
Algae-boosted
Animal
Anthropomorphism
Anti-Continuous Construction
Apocalypse
Aquaculture
Aquanaut
Ark
Artificial Intelligence
Autopoiesis
Assemblages
Asymmetry
Atrophy
Attraction
Autarchy
Automata
Automation
Autosymbiosis
Bambassador
Bathyscaphe
Bioconurbation
Biomedia
Bionics
Biosphere
Biotechnique
By-product
Capacity
Actant
Coisolation
Composting
Conservative Surgery
Consumer Envelope
Consumption
Continuous Construction
Conurbation
Correalism
Cultural_Memory
Cybernetics
Cybertecture
Cyborg
Dispositif
Diving Saucer
Dross
Earthship
Ecocatastrophe
Effluvium
Egosphere
End-use
Entanglement
Eutopia
Feedback
Foam
Folk
Gadget
Garbage House
Green Cyborg
Heuristic
Hoard
Holism
Homogenization of Desire
Hostile
Human Affect
Hybridized Folk
Hydroponic
Hyper-Materialism
Information Economy
Inner Space
Interama
Intra-Uterine
Maque
Megalopolis
Min-use
Mobility
Monorail
Multi-Hinge
Non-Design
Oceanaut
Oppositional Consciousness
Organic
Ouroboros
Panarchy
Parasite
Perceived Continuation
Permanence
Place
Prototype
Post-Animal
Reclamation
RI: Data Farms
RI: Garbage and Animals
RI:Shipbreaking
RI: Toxic Sublime
Sampling
Scale
Sensing Structure
Simulacrum
Simulation
Soft Energy
Spaceship Earth
Submersible
Superwindow
Symbiosis
Synthetic Environment
Technocratic
Technological Heredity
Technological Sublime
Telechirics
The Sublime
Thermal Panel
Actant
Thing-Power
Thinking Machines
Tool
Toxic Withdrawal
Turbulence
UV-Transparent Film
Vibrant Matter
Waste
Work

CULTURAL MEMORY

Cultural memory: the link between past, present, and future. Two types of memory: the communicative one, related to the diffuse transmission of memories in everyday life through orality, and cultural memory - in which the speech was focused - referring to objectified and institutionalized memories, that can be stored, transferred and reincorporated throughout generations.

Aleida Assmann

Thus, memory appears as a device to protect the past against the corrosive action of time and to give subsidies for individuals to understand the world and know what to expect, 'so they do not have to reinvent the wheel and start each generation from scratch.' The researcher concluded that cultural memory should not be understood as an unhealthy fixation to the past, but as a back-up, a kind of background necessary for society to build its future. But, according to her, this memory should be inspected critically, as any other.

Origin

Jan Assmann

Reading Context

"Architecture belongs chiefly to what [Francois] Jacob calls "mental memory," cultural memory. Life, on the other hand, is neither art nor discipline, although capable of being disciplined. Life too is concerned with its own logic and its own standingup, and it belongs to what Jacob calls 'genetic memory.' Very little from mental, or cultural, memory becomes inscribed in the genetic memory by which the body is reproduced over time, although almost everything about the body and its biological life has been a subject of inquiry in contemporary cultural life. [Erwin] Schrodinger remarks extensively on the irrelevance of our cultural lives with genetics. We know that this can't possibly be completely true but the terms of its untruth are difficult to pin down."1

Garbage City Context

The Zabbaleen are Coptic Christians which they have kept since they migrated from Dakhla Oasis to Mokattam Village. Their religion has found its way into their garbage culture. They believe its God's plan to recycle. Therefore, garbage collecting is not just recycling but a part of their religious culture which has manifested into a garbage culture which both have been passed down generations and will continue to be passed down to future generations.

Citations
Ingraham, Catherine. Architecture, Animal, Human: The Asymmetrical Condition. 2006, Routledge. pp.4