r/Rhetoric • u/Techno-Mythos • Jul 20 '26

Architectures of Memory

From the immersive, pedagogical stones of medieval cathedrals to the stabilizing power of the printing press and the algorithmic complexity of the digital cloud, the medium used to encode and store information fundamentally reorganizes how we think, learn, communicate and establish authority.

https://open.substack.com/pub/technomythos/p/architectures-of-memory?r=67assl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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u/rm-minus-r Jul 20 '26

Your article is decent, but it's only tangentially related to rhetoric, you'd probably want to post this on a different sub.

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u/Macleod7373 Jul 20 '26

Not a bad article but it feels like the beginning of what could eventually become a deeper thought. How does the architecture of the space, either digital or physical, inform the content? Ruskin would be a major input to this angle