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Die Funktionen des individuellen wie kollektiven Gedächtnisses sind nicht unmittelbar anschaulich; wir müssen Metaphern zu Hilfe nehmen, um sie beschreiben. Diese Gedächtnismetaphern wechseln im Laufe der Geschichte, wobei medientechnische Innovationen eine maßgebliche Rolle spielen. So hat die Erfindung des Computers dazu geführt, daß sowohl in den Kognitions- als auch in den Kulturwissenschaften das Modell von "Speicherung und Wiedereinschaltung" (storage and retrieval) die Vorstellungen über das menschliche Erinnern dominierte. Doch schon seit längerem können wir beobachten, daß dieses Leitbild durch ein anderes abgelöst wird: Die invarianten Begriffe der Einlagerung und Wiederentnahme weichen den dynamischen ludisch-theatraler Performativität. ...
Giulio Camillo (1480 - 1544) was as well-known in his era as Bill Gates is now. Just like Gates he cherished a vision of a universal Storage and Retrieval System, and just like Microsoft Windows, his ‘Theatre of the Memory’ was, despite constant revision, never completed. Camillo’s legendary Theatre of Memory remained only a fragment, its benefits only an option for the future. When it was finished, the user - so he predicted - would have access to the knowledge of the whole universe. On account of his promising invention, Camillo’s contemporaries called him ‘the divine’. For others, like Erasmus or the Parisian scholars, he was just a ‘quack’, but also this only shows that his reception was as strong as is the case with the computer gurus of our days. Still, Camillo was forgotten immediately after his death. No trace is left of his spectacular databank - except a short treatise which he dictated on his deathbed and which was formulated in the future tense: ‘L’Idea del Theatro’ (1550). ...