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Forms of action and forms of memory : reflections in a mirror ?

Des formes de l’action aux formes de la mémoire : un jeu de miroir ?

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The current development of information and knowledge management technologies, known variously as “collective memories” or “organizational memories”, indicates, according to Blasquez, (1992) the importance that companies give to the immaterial resources of information and knowledge developed by organizations. The literature contains two perspectives on memory (see Havelange in this issue). One point of view maintains that a collective entity is liable to possess a memory. The other sees memory as the product of the aggregation and composition of individual memories. Havelange rejects these two positions. In her opinion, the first is holistic and the second, a form of methodological individualism. She proposes an alternative outlook which considers memory as “the actualization in the present of material traces which come from the past and are collectively inscribed on technical supports”. This proposition is interesting, yet it needs to be examined in terms of the actors of the “collective memories”. In this article, I investigate the relations that exist, or are liable to exist, between forms of action and forms of memory. In this issue, Rabardel demonstrates that memory at work is linked to action, both in its production and its reutilization. Memory is constructed in the present in that it is contextualized by the integration of constraints and results born of the past. At the same time, it projects towards the future.
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hal-03623112 , version 1 (29-03-2022)

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Viviane Folcher. Forms of action and forms of memory : reflections in a mirror ?. Mémoire de la technique et techniques de la mémoire, Érès, pp.181-193, 1999, ⟨10.3917/eres.lenay.1999.01.0181⟩. ⟨hal-03623112⟩
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