MEMORY AND OBLIVION: TANGIBLE IMAGES AND UTOPIA

The thesis of W. Benjamin on the concept History echoes as almost an anti-postmodernism manifesto: approach to past is structured through images, not narratives. Indeed, in tension between history (the universal rooted agreed replicable methodologies for a human archetype) and memory ego or sociocentric individual experiences), egos design narratives try fit evidence into them, whereas historical constantly reconstructed zooming details that generate new images. image history, mental individuals, layer arrival, nor even point departure, but vehicle transformation how space perceived (as Kant argued) constructed (following Bachelard), phenomenological process performing tasks being driver such construction argued by Ingold). images is, this sense, social cultural landscapes, i.e., poetics space. This encompasses four mechanisms change: identification (based senses and, primarily, touch sound), adaptation Kantian perception scenario aptitude), making, creating landscapes changing their core images) method (namely dialectics tangible intangible dimensions). narrative ultimately, root ego/socio-centered memories anthropic-rational history. In process, builds from memories, overcoming preserving basic units information may be recombined, create novel past, also present future. considers oblivion indicator reliability those memories. paper we discuss material culture backbone why it has much more plastic transformative nature than narratives, which are expressions consolidation (and conservation) understandings. keyword oblivion: allow us forget fossil move utopias.