Time and memory by Tommaso Izzo https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d en-us 2023-03-20 17:26:42 UTC 2026-02-26 12:31:03 UTC hello@padlet.com Time and memory tommasoizzos https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524007572 2023-03-20 17:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524007572 Primo Levi and the importance of memory after World War II tommasoizzos https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524009205 «Memory is like the sea: it can return scraps of wreckage after years»
Primo Levi

You who live safe
In your warm houses
You who find returning in the evening
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Working in the mud
That he knows no peace
What a fight for half a loaf
Who dies for a yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman,
No hair and no name
No more strength to remember
Your eyes are empty and your womb is cold
Like a frog in winter.
Meditate that this was:
I command you these words.
Carve them in your heart
Staying at home going on the street,
Going to bed getting up;
Repeat them to your children.
Or your house will fall apart,
Illness prevents you,
Your newborns turn their faces away from you.]]> 2023-03-20 17:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524009205 DNA as mass storage: the importance of genetic memory tommasoizzos https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524038585 Human memory is enclosed in just over 100 genes, identified thanks to the correlation between genetic data and brain activity in the process of processing memories.
Each cell contains a genome (or genetic heritage), defined as the set of genes that give each organism certain characteristics. Genes constitute the instructions and information necessary for the production of the components of the cell itself and for its duplication.]]> 2023-03-20 17:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524038585 Seneca and the "De brevitate vitae": an invitation to enjoy the moment. tommasoizzos https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524057763 Seneca, speaking of time, wonders about the transience of life. In reality, however - as the Latin philosopher points out - this is only apparent: man, in fact, projecting himself into a future that by definition is uncertain, neglects the only dimension that belongs to him, the present. Time, in this reflection, appears to be the only good granted to man. So in Seneca, as in Horace, we find an invitation to live in the present moment. Nevertheless, while in Horace this ideal of life is mainly hedonistic-Epicurean, Seneca, for his part, recommends a path, philosophically oriented, aimed at achieving wisdom.]]> 2023-03-20 18:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524057763 Time through the "Argonautiche" of Apollonius of Rhodes: the actualization of the myth in comparison with the "absolute past" of Homer tommasoizzos https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524076555 Apollonio Rodio, in his Argonautiche, updates the myth, comparing it and relating it to the practices, uses and customs of his era. So, as Fusillo says, while in the Homeric poems we are immersed in an "absolute past", the Argonauticas are, on the other hand, "a laboratory on the myth in the present".
Therefore, the present (Jason's journey), the past (the background and the continuous references to previous mythical sagas) and the future (the anticipations) meet at a crossroads. We are, therefore, faced with a complex temporal stratification, which determines a clear lag between fabula and plot.
We find extended parts, in which the time of the narration and the time of the story coincide, and parts in which the time of the story is skilfully accelerated.]]> 2023-03-20 18:18:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524076555 Nietzsche and the carriage gate tommasoizzos https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524096460 Nietzsche in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" explains his personal conception of time, opposed to the linear Christian one. He expounds the doctrine of the "eternal return" through the metaphor of the carriage door, in which the infinite line of the past and the infinite line of the present meet in one point: the moment. According to this conception, every moment is destined to "return", or repeat itself, infinitely over time.]]> 2023-03-20 18:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524096460 "The Persistence of Memory" tommasoizzos https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524105557 The Persistence of Memory is one of Salvador Dali's most memorable paintings. As a characteristic element of the work we find the famous cast clocks. Some unreal objects are arranged in a fantasy landscape. A few watches with a distorted texture dominate the scene. One can imagine that the melted clocks represent the relativity of time perception. In fact, each of us has his own temporal sensation in relation to the same situations. Also, each clock shows different times.]]> 2023-03-20 18:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2524105557 The interior monologue and the lack of chronological order tommasoizzos https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2525610813 The interior monologue lacks chronological order and, moreover, conveys the distinction between subjective and objective time. 
As a matter of fact, while characters stay fixed in space, their consciousness moves freely in time. Thus, the present can either extend to infinity or contract to a moment. For this reason, we face the concept of "inner time", which describes the relativism of experiencing time and memories as well. ]]> 2023-03-21 15:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2525610813 Time as the means to win the war: "blitzkrieg", or "lightning war" tommasoizzos https://padlet.com/tommasoizzos/rpzgo71u1q9cek0d/wish/2527664799 "Blitzkrieg," a German word meaning “Lightning War,” was Germany's strategy to avoid a long war in the first phase of World War II in Europe. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns.

Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on this new military tactic of "Blitzkrieg." Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planes, and artillery) along a narrow front. These forces would drive a breach in enemy defenses, permitting armored tank divisions to penetrate rapidly and roam freely behind enemy lines, causing shock and disorganization among the enemy defenses. German air power prevented the enemy from adequately resupplying or redeploying forces and thereby from sending reinforcements to seal breaches in the front. German forces could in turn encircle opposing troops and force surrender.

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