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"Suppose lightning strikes a dead tree in a swamp; I am standing nearby. My body is reduced to its elements, while entirely by coincidence (and out of different molecules) the tree is turned into my physical replica. My replica, The Swampman, moves exactly as I did; according to its nature it departs the swamp, encounters and seems to recognize my friends, and appears to return their greetings in English. It moves into my house and seems to write articles on radical interpretation. No one can tell the difference." (443)

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Donald Davidson, "Knowing One's Own Mind"

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"Imagine, then, for the sake of argument, that our minds contain a block of wax, which in this or that individual may be larger or smaller, and composed of wax that is comparatively pure or muddy, and harder in some, softer in other, and sometimes of just the right consistency." (25)

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Plato, Theaetetus

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Tabula Rasa

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a blank slate that is a metaphor for memory. A metaphor used in: Locke's "An Essy Concerning Human Understanding"

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A Wax Tablet

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Memories are imprinted and can be altered but not entirely, it'll still sort of be there. A metaphor used initially in Theatetus, then again in De oratore and Ad herrenium

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Tenor

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From Abrams, "a Glossary of Literary Terms" Tenor is the subject. Or, the "general meaning, sense, or content of something

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Vehicle

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From Abrams, "a Glossary of Literary Terms" the Vehicle is the metaphor itself. A wax tablet is the vehicle for the metaphor of memory

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We have, (this guy) argues (via socrates), all "had contemplation of true being," but we forgot it.

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Plato is the one that holds this view, in Phaedrus

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"If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks."

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Plato, Phaedrus

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"Memory, even the memory of objects of thought, is not without an image. So memory will belong to thought in virtue of an incidental association, but in its own right to the primary perceptive part."

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Aristotle, De Memoria et Reminisentia.

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De memoria et Reminisentia

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All about memory. Talks about how memory involves time. Memory - past, Perception - Present, Prediction - Future. Also talks about how memory requires an image and a background. Also mentions how our memory is a copy of when we last experienced/remembered it. With the emotions we felt both at the time and with how we feel now.

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"Prompted by this experience, he [Simonides] is then said to have made the discovery that order is what most brings light to our memory. And he concluded that those who would like to employ this part of their abilities should choose localities, then form mental images of the things they wanted to store in their memory, and place these in the localities."

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Cicero, De Oratore

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Cicero

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Wrote De oratore and thought to have written Ad Herrenium, but it is doubtful. Talks about the localities of memory, (De Oratore) and the method of Loci in ad herrenium

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De Oratore

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Written by Cicero, talks about the localities of memory

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"Something used to aid the memory; (in later use) spec. a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations which assists in remembering something."

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Mnemonic device

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"The natural memory is that memory which is imbedded in our mind, born simultaneously with thought. The artificial memory is that memory which is strengthened by a kind of training and system of discipline."

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Cicero, Ad herrenium (Though it's not necessarily true that he wrote this. The author is more or less anonymous)

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Ad Herrenium

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Anonymous, though it is often attributed to have been written by Cicero, though that is doubtful. Talks all about the method of Loci and the two types of memory. Natural and artificial. Also talks about how when we think of things we need to put it in a background. Also talks about why certain memories stick

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Natural Memory

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From Cicero's(?) Ad herrenium, Memory that we are born with

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Artificial Memory

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From Cicero's(?) Ad Herrenium, memory that is learned/strengthened by teaching

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How do mediums relate to memory?

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The way we think about memory and memorization are bound to available technologies

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The Stomach

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A metaphor for memory used in Mary Carruthers' The Book of Memory: A Study in Medieval culture. The metaphor goes where people will ruminate (think about over and over, unhealthily) much like a cow's stomach Ruminates its food (digest many times amongst many stomachs)

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The Book of Memory: A Study in Medieval Culture

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Written by Mary Carruthers. Discusses the metaphor of the stomach with regards to memory. This is used to talk about when a student "digests" a text and "regurgitate's" it they have, "become not its interpreter, but its new author, or re-author."

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The printing press

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Developed at the end of medieval times / beginning of the renaissance by Johannes Gutenberg, made printing books Waaaaaay more efficient.

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The Art of Memory

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Written by Francis Yates and only briefly talked about in lecture, revisits the method of loci except with a more cosmic scale

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"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" by John Locke

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Talks about: Perception and reflection and how they are correlated with how ideas begin. gives a metaphor for memory (tabula rasa) Talks about forgetting and how pictures in our minds a painted in fading colors. Also gives the metaphor that memory is like various types of stone, depending on how strong it is

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Empiricism

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"The theory that certain capacities or abilities (esp. those of sense perception or language) are not innate, but are acquired by learning" "Primary reliance on evidence derived from observation, investigation, or experiment" i.e. you you are able to do and know stuff not because it is innate, but because you learned it. presented by Locke

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"For as far as any intelligent Being can repeat the Idea of any past Action with the same consciousness it has of any present Action; so far it is the same personal self." (336)

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Locke. great quote to answer Donald Davidson question. if you can repeat the idea of a past action, then it is the personal self.

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Subjectivity by Nick Mansfield

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Attempts to answer the question of where "my" sense of self comes from. Discusses the different "you"s. The business, family, and friend "you" Attacks the idea of subject versus self. Looks into the four types of subject and discusses subjectivity.

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The four types of subject

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The subject of grammar: Von Miller is MVP of Superbowl 50. The politico-legal subject: Von Miller is subject to the laws of Colorado and the United States. The philosophical subject: "Von Miller thinks, therefore he is." The subject as human person: Von Miller is a human. Attributed to Mansfield

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Subjectivity

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Subjectivity refers to how someone's judgment is shaped by personal opinions and feelings instead of outside influences. Subjectivity is partially responsible for why one person loves an abstract painting while another person hates it.

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Genealogical approach

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Presented by Mansfield, looks at theories and takes them as the objects for analysis. discusses how there isn't always one solid answer

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La Mettrie's "Man a Machine"

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Talks all about materialism and how the human body is all about the way it is physically built.

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Metaphysical approach

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Talks about facts and figures. There is one actual truth

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Descartes (Cartesian) Dualism

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The physical and the emotional. (The body and soul)

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Frame Narrative

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Occurs in Frankenstein. Refers to how there is a story within a story.

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Cause and affect

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Common themes in Frankenstein. The actions that people have within the novel and what they cause/who's fault it is. for example, how is Victor at Fault for his monster murdering William?

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"Memory Clearing House" by Isreal Zangwill

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All about the implantation and deletion of memories.

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Locke's theory of Personal Identity

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"For as far as any intelligent Being can repeat the Idea of any past Action with the same consciousness it has of any present Action; so far it is the same personal self." He considered personal identity (or the self) to be founded on consciousness (viz. memory), and not on the substance of either the soul or the body.

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Freud's three aspects of mind

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Conscious Preconscious Unconscious

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Mystic Writing Pad

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a pad that you write on and remembers indefinitely until you lift the sheet. Eventually though the gunk goes bad and won't forget stuff anymore. Metaphor for memory

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Conscious

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Part of Freud's aspects of the mind, The ideas we are currently thinking about

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Preconscious

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Part of Freud's aspects of the mind, The ideas that we are not thinking about but can be pulled upon

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Unconscious

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Part of Freud's aspects of the mind, an idea that is being withheld from being conscious or preconscious. It's lodged in there.

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Alien Phenomenology

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asks us to reflect with attentiveness to the perception and experience of nonhumans and objects. have empathy for other shit. Bats was an example.

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"He awoke - and wanted Mars"

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"We can Remember it for you, Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick

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"We can Remember it for you, Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick

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Similar to memory clearing house. Except it's all about a past secret agent who now wants mars because he was there once. but doesn't remember.

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Posthuman

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a concept originating in the fields of science fiction, futurology, contemporary art, and philosophy that literally means a person or entity that exists in a state beyond being human. A thought presented in Dollhouse.

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Shadow Subjectivity

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The "online" version of ourselves

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"Discipline and Punish" By Michel Foucault

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Talks about Panopticism

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Explain Foucault's account of Panopticism "This will be on the exam"

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Foucault suggests that because of the way power is exercised in society, We police ourselves. This is because of the possibility of there being a police officer, not necessarily because there definitely is one around.

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Panopticon

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The center area for authority figure with cells all around it. Can't see in, but he can see out. Goes hand in hand with Foucault's panopticism.

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"ours is a society of spectacle, not surveillance"

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Discipline and Punish, Foucault

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"Blown to Bits" by Hal Abelson

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Talks all about patterns and how most information nowadays will only be seen by computers. However, computers are getting better and better about interpreting this data and picking out these patterns. Also discusses how stuff just doesn't go away. Also discusses how we leave digital footprints and fingerprints everywhere we go. The difference between the two being stuff we know we are leaving behind vs. what we don't know is getting left behind (finger vs. foot in that order). Also poses the question of the right to be alone and the right to control our data.

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"Dragnet Nation" By Angwin

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Ms. Angwin looked at her data and found a bunch of stuff had been collected on her over the years.

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"you should know your data"

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Dragnet nation, Angwin

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Prism and Upstream

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Programs used in united states of secrets to spy on Americans and collect data

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"The Minority Report" By Phillip K. Dick

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All about finding people and arresting them before they actually commit crimes. discusses a police force that predicts future crimes and acts upon them.

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Janet Vertesi

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Attempted to hide her data when she got pregnant.

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"Dataveillance and Counterveillance" By Rita Raley

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Discusses the possibilities of "opting out" of dataveillance. A term coined (I think) by Raley. Talks all about dataveillance, counterveillance, interpolation and looks into the shadow subject.

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Shadow Subject

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Who we are according to our data

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Raw data verses patterned data

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a discrete piece of info vs patterns that companies pick up on

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Dataveillance

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the act of tailoring ads for consumers based off of patterned data

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Interpellation

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The way that ideology shapes the subject. (Ideology - A system of ideas or ideals. esp. those of economic and political theory) In other words, the way that our thoughts and ideas shapes us

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counterveillance

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actively working against dataveillance

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"the right to be Forgotten"

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The lecture discusses google vs. spain. And how google needs to forget stuff no matter what server the Spaniards are on. The idea that citizens had the right to request their data to be suppressed if it was Inaccurate, Inadequate, Irrelevant, or Excessive. Also talks about UC davis attempting to get rid of its association with the pepper spray guy.

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"If I mistrust my memory... I am able to supplement and guarantee its working by making a note in writing. In that case the surface upon which this note is preserved, the pocket-book of sheet of paper, is as it were a materialized portion of my mnemic apparatus, the rest of which I carry about with invisible"

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Note on the mystic writing pad by Freud

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