Sunday, June 11, 2006
Collective Memories
Absent a widespread tribal support system or reliable institutions for the exercise of new narratives incorporating our vital stories, values, and norms, it is the network form we must now rely on as “curator” of these tales. Organizations within a civil-society network--more precisely, the individuals who retain these collective memories--are then crucial to keeping them alive. ...
It is in this constructing of networks through face-to-face interaction, in pursuit of comprehending the forces against us, that we can discover our strengths and deepest values, and, with luck, develop enduring loci of memory and understanding to guide, comfort, and console those yet to come.
Read the entire paper at:
http://skookumgeoduck.blogspot.com/2005/11/institutional-memory-as-community.html
It is in this constructing of networks through face-to-face interaction, in pursuit of comprehending the forces against us, that we can discover our strengths and deepest values, and, with luck, develop enduring loci of memory and understanding to guide, comfort, and console those yet to come.
Read the entire paper at:
http://skookumgeoduck.blogspot.com/2005/11/institutional-memory-as-community.html
