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Captions appear: On May 18th, 2012, I filmed a keynote address
Anne Wysocki spoke at the Computers & Writing Conference
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Caption: I used a battery powered microphone when recording the session
Some days later
I downloaded the video
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Caption: Then I settled in to watch
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Caption: When I finished
My attitude toward access changed
I had always understood access on an intellectual level
Suddenly I had a visceral, personal understanding
This video attempts to capture that experience
It reproduces a small segment of the keynote
And captures the typing of a transcript for the video
The video also tries to enact the concerns that come
from the different ways we access materials
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Volume raised on keynote video: So what we have is memory, a person's power, a person's power to remember things, the power of the mind to remember things.
Notice that shift.
Memory, from Wikipedia--first entry.
Memory is the processes by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
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Text appears on screen: Skip from 31:59 to 32:30 [ Transcript skips discussion of additional search results for memory]
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Browser video sound: “The Crane Wife 1,” The Decemberists, “and it called and cried so.”
Mixed audio from keynote, “more computer memory” and browser video, “and it called and cried.” “Memory makes us.” “And it called and cried so.”
Volume raised on keynote video: Or here’s from again the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Which again puts all the focus on individual memory.
And the memory, the, the talk of history in here, is all about my individual history.
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There's still the talk of cognition, imagination, and memory that goes all the way back to Aristotle,
but the focus is completely on individuality here,
where is it?
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