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21 August 2025

  • curprev 06:5806:58, 21 August 2025Mbauwens talk contribs 1,229 bytes +1,229 Created page with " =Characteristics= Venkatesh Rao: "'''Civilizational memory can be understood in terms of three entangled strands — affective, declarative, and procedural'''. These correspond, roughly, to myth-based, event-based, and econo-legal senses of history. The US constitution, for instance, embodies all three elements in a single print-based artifact. There is the sacralized mythology (bordering on theology, complete with a reverential hermeneutic tradition) of what the Fo..."