Memory
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2022.205740Keywords:
Memory, Culture, Self-interpretation, Self-modelingAbstract
This essay analyzes how the Memory category runs through Lotman’s theoretical production. The Russian thinker analyzes a new theory of memory that he develops as an essential part of culture conceived as a semiotic system, a concept developed in the works of the Tartu-Moscow school. Aiming to describe the techniques of self-interpretation and self-modeling (transformation, translation, transcoding) through which a culture tries to stabilize itself.
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