ABSTRACT The algorithmic turn in photography has transformed memory into a collaboration between humans and machines, fostering digital hoarding —the compulsive accumulation of personal photographs and data that fuels AI systems and reshapes how we remember, forget, and fabricate the past. This article builds on Marianne Hirsch’s postmemory to examine how AI technologies and digital hoarding co-create new forms of memory-making, blurring the boundaries between individual and collective histories. These shifts challenge traditional understandings of authenticity, agency, and representation, while also opening new possibilities for reimagining photographic memory in an AI-driven world. By introducing three original frameworks —algorithmic postmemory, speculative memory landscapes, and curated forgetting; this study critically explores the evolving dynamics of AI-mediated memory. It highlights the cultural, ethical, and theoretical implications of these transformations, emphasizing both their creative potential and risks of distortion and erasure. The study contributes to broader debates on culture, photography, and memory practices, underscoring the need for interdisciplinary and ethical engagement to ensure that algorithmic mediation enhances, rather than diminishes, the richness and complexity of human and collective histories.

The article examines the influence of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) produced by wireless infrastructure on the navigation abilities and homing success of the Western honey bee Apis mellifera. The relevance of this work is determined by the fact that pollination is an economically and ecosystemically significant service, while the density of RF-EMF sources in landscapes is rapidly increasing and transforming previously local impacts into a quasi-permanent background. This review aims to integrate data on bee orientation mechanisms, exposure metrics, and regimes (ranging from electric field strength and power density to SAR/surface-averaged absorbed power density), as well as behavioral protocols that enable the detection of hive-return disruptions under realistic conditions. Scientific novelty lies in a cognitive-ecological interpretation of navigation as a multichannel ensemble (solar compass with circadian compensation, polarization cues, landscape memory, and potential magnetic sensitivity), within which RF-EMF are considered not as an off-switch for orientation but as a factor that shifts channel weights and increases the probability of errors. Additionally, the necessity of linking field dosimetry with the modeling of energy absorption by the bee body is emphasized, because the frequency structure of the environment can alter absorbed power disproportionately to the mean background. The main conclusions can be summarized as a fundamental distinction between short-term and chronic exposure: in a particular field test at frequencies typical of Wi-Fi, a reduction in the return proportion was observed under prolonged exposure, whereas short irradiation before release did not demonstrate a comparable effect. Practically, this supports a precautionary approach (reasonable hive placement and minimization of unnecessary transmitters near colonies) alongside standardized recording of context and behavioral indicators. The article will be helpful for researchers of insect behavior, specialists in radiobiology/ecotoxicology, as well as practitioners of beekeeping and agroecology who assess the risks associated with the anthropogenic background.

This article explores how migrant gardeners from Turkey make homes and mediate experiences of displacement, settlement and belonging through multispecies collaborations with plants in urban contexts based on ethnographic research in Germany and the Netherlands. Our focus is on the temporal negotiations at play: how migrants navigate memories of past landscapes, adjust to present climatic and ecological conditions and cultivate aspirations for the future through the rhythms and materialities of plants. Here, plants serve not only as conduits of nostalgia but also as active companions in the everyday labour of homemaking. The sensory and laborious dimensions of gardening anchor migrants in embodied memories while also grounding them in new environments. Yet these processes are far from seamless. Migrants and plants face the challenges of adapting to unfamiliar seasons and changing climate conditions together, prompting inventive strategies to care for plants and sustain gardens across temporal and ecological disjunctures. In doing so, migrant gardening contributes to the transformation of urban natures – not only through the introduction of new plant species but also by reconfiguring urban spaces as sites of relational and affective life. We argue that these entangled human–plant temporalities reshape ‘home-city geographies’, revealing how migrants remake urban environments not only with and for human communities but in active and ongoing dialogue with more-than-human others in temporal registers.

We investigate the landscape of many-body memories: families of local nonequilibrium dynamics that retain information about their initial conditions for thermodynamically long timescales, even in the presence of arbitrary perturbations. In two dimensions, the only well-studied memory is Toom's rule. Using a combination of rigorous proofs and machine learning methods, we show that the landscape of 2D memories is in fact quite vast. We discover memories that correct errors in ways qualitatively distinct from Toom's rule, have ordered phases stabilized by fluctuations, and preserve information only in the presence of noise. Taken together, our results show that physical systems can perform robust information storage in many distinct ways, and demonstrate that the physics of many-body memories is richer than previously realized.

From Aristotle to Bazin, the concept of art as mirror to reflect reality and the ontological level that establishes an existential relationship between image and reality respectively, depicting space, time and causality, is still today subject of constantly evolving. At the turn of the twenty-first century, understood as pictorial turn or Age of simulation (W. J. T. Mitchell, 1992), or even Age of disposable people (Rey Chow, 2010), the contribution of moving images to collective and individual memory relies, precisely, on questioning its boundaries when relating to visual literacy (James Elkins, 2008). The landscape of memory coming to fruition, dwelling in-between staged and altered realities, creates, then, the illusion of transparency as a catalyst to provoke re-actions. By evoking and questioning mediation as “creator’s essence” towards the vision of the “world as a picture”, “Entre Nós” (Between Us, 2025) emerged from artistic disquite. Namely, the need to seek challenges, in particular the continuous looking forward to discover an idea as we tried to merge the expectations of everyone. Last but not least, the urgency to materialize it within a limited time-frame. The opportunity of developing this project arose at a moment of closure, when seizing every opportunity became essential. Above all, it came about the eagerness to start building a meaningful path for us as artists.

ABSTRACT Colonialism persists as a cultural, economic, political and psychological process. Colonial legacies embedded in Europe's landscapes of colonial memory continue to shape how individuals and groups are perceived and positioned in present‐day intergroup relations. Schools and textbooks reproduce these legacies, making it essential to examine how they represent the colonised Other and construct power relations. This study investigates how images related to colonialism in Finnish school textbooks construct identity and power. Drawing on the social representations approach (SRA) and employing visual rhetorical analysis (VRA), 484 images from 52 textbooks were analysed to identify constructions of identity through subject positions and power through ego–alter pairings. The analysis identified four visual rhetorical strategies—oppressing, agentic, chaotising and eye‐gazing—and addressed four subject positions of the colonised Other: subjugated, autonomous, wreckable and spectacular. The findings demonstrate how images construct and circulate collective memories and group identities, revealing how colonial hierarchies are maintained through imagery in the educational context. Empirically, the study provides new insights into how the colonised Other is visually represented in school textbooks. Theoretically and methodologically, it introduces the ego–alter framework to visual analysis, demonstrates the utility of VRA for uncovering the power of imagery, contributes to postcolonial social psychology and provides tools to foster critical visual literacy and challenge colonial legacies.

Dark tourism communication in Eastern Europe remains insufficiently examined, despite the region’s complex post-authoritarian memory landscape and the growing use of storytelling in tourism marketing. This study aims to clarify how Romanian dark tourism campaigns construct meaning through narrative structures and affective framing. Using a qualitative multi-method design, the analysis integrates ten promotional campaigns and six semi-structured interviews with professionals from tourism, memorial institutions, and cultural organizations. Results reveal four recurrent narrative–affective clusters, sacral-memorial, historical-didactic, spectral-sensational, and hybrid commercial, each shaped by trauma referentiality, emotional framing, and specific calls-to-action. These configurations map consistently onto Stone’s thanatological spectrum and highlight how practitioners negotiate authenticity and ethical boundaries. The study contributes a transferable narrative–affective model for dark tourism communication and underscores the need for transparency, contextual sensitivity, and responsible storytelling in the marketing of trauma-related heritage.

Even though Gilberto Freyre is a renowned scholar of miscegenation theory, not much is known about his poetry. His collection Poesia Reunida (1980) [Collected Poetry], provides a rare glimpse of the sociologist as he addresses themes of women, family, slavery, and nostalgia.[i] Embodying Lusotropicalism, Poesia Reunida embraces multiracial ideology while maintaining a laissez-faire attitude toward the colonized Amerindian and enslaved African populations. Freyre deploys an imagistic vision to describe his memories of landscapes and to characterize Brazilian identity. Drawing upon T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and Manuel Bandeira, this study offers a portrait of the sociologist as a poet of substance and describes how he struggles to transcend the limits of his miscegenation theories. Note [i] The first effort to collect Gilberto Freyre’s poems was Talvez Poesia,which brought together his collections and some individual poems, such as Brasiliana Litoral e Sertão, Encanta-Moça e Outros Encantamentos, Agôsto Azul e Outros Poemas Europeus, and África & Ásia, among others.

This paper attempts to understand the nature of complex negotiation with displaced identities revealed through the memoirs of four partition survivors who migrated from various places of West Bengal, India, and relocated in Khulna division in erstwhile East Pakistan, today’s Bangladesh, over a period of two decades since 1946. These testimonials were collected through on-site interviews in the districts of Jhenidah, Kushtia, Meherpur, and Chuadanga during 2017-2018 as part of a one-year project titled “Mapping Partition Memory, Amnesia and Literature in Middle and Southern Bengal: An Indo-Bangladesh Perspective” jointly carried out by English Discipline, Khulna University, and Netaji Shubhas Open University, Kolkata. The oral testimonies of Partition survivors from Bangladesh make visible how displacement is not contained within the historical moment of migration but reverberates through everyday life, kinship, and speech. Memory here does not function as a passive archive; it actively reconstitutes identity, mediates loss, and negotiates belonging. The paper asks how Muslim refugee testimonies from southern Bangladesh make visible the lived processes through which displaced individuals reconstruct their sense of belonging, negotiate their identity, and make sense of home within shifting political and emotional contexts. Three central findings emerge from the analysis of the narratives. First, displacement appears as an embodied condition in which sensory memory of food, weather, landscape, and sound structures the articulation of loss and longing. Second, memory takes shape within the context of political and historical pressures that influence how individuals interpret their past. Third, belonging emerges as gradual and negotiated rather than immediate, and depends on incorporation into community narratives and social worlds. The paper argues that the Partition of Bengal is not a closed historical event but an ongoing presence that continues to shape memory, speech, and the slow formation of home for Muslim refugees in post-Partition Bangladesh.

In this essay, the mountain is presented as a place where the relationship between body and world can be recomposed. Slope and gravity restore physicality; the body regains weight, measures effort, and reveals the link between action and limit. Everyday gestures – walking, gathering wood, building shelter – become ways of rediscovering interdependence between humans, resources, and the environment. Mountains are not inert matter but reservoirs of energy, accumulated over millions of years and released through rivers, glaciers, landslides, and sediments that nourish the plains. Each urban structure corresponds to a void elsewhere – quarries, mines, cut forests – reminding us of the continuity between mountain and city. They also embody deep time, preserving memories of vanished landscapes and processes beyond human scale. They confront us with transience, stripping away illusions of centrality. Here, time can also contract into sudden accelerations: extreme hydrogeological events reshape landscapes in an instant. Mountains are not only sensitive archives but privileged witnesses of climate change – glaciers retreat, slopes shift, floods erase geographies – and what happens at altitude inevitably flows downstream. Conceived as subjects, mountains and their elements carry ancient knowledge and distributed intelligences. They communicate through flows, forms, invisible tensions. Practices of walking, observing, touching, and listening become mediations with these forces. Within this framework, art translates and interprets, opening dialogue with other bodies and times. It becomes an exercise in attention, rethinking our place in the world and exploring new forms of coexistence.

This article interprets the Stealth Slavery Sticker Campaign, a grassroots counter-mapping project led by the artist-activist collective Slavers of New York, as a chapter in the broader Living Black Atlas. Started during the racial reckoning of 2020, the campaign placed unauthorized stickers on street signs and other surfaces across Brooklyn to reveal suppressed histories of slavery embedded in commemorative place names. The stickers transformed daily encounters with taken-for-granted road names into unexpected opportunities to confront prominent historical families who profited from enslavement and to acknowledge the contributions of enslaved Africans in shaping the city. The collective framed their campaign as a “guerrilla educational” action that disrupted memorial landscapes, challenged discourses of white innocence, and provoked broader conversations about racial justice and accountability. At a time when official institutions are increasingly retreating from confronting racism, small, temporary interventions, such as these Stealth Stickers, can play a crucial role in encouraging critical audits of commemorative infrastructures, layering counter-narratives onto public spaces, fostering embodied confrontation with historical truths, and remaking everyday places through bold, unexpected acts of resistance.

Classical autoassociative memory models have been central to understanding emergent computations in recurrent neural circuits across diverse biological contexts. However, they typically neglect neuromodulatory agents that are known to strongly shape memory capacity and stability. Here we introduce a minimal, biophysically motivated associative memory network where neuropeptide-like signals are modeled by a self-adaptive, activity-dependent gating mechanism. Using many-body simulations and dynamical mean-field theory, we show that such gating fundamentally reorganizes the attractor structure: the network bypasses the classical spin-glass transition, maintaining robust, high-overlap retrieval far beyond the standard critical capacity, without shrinking basins of attraction. Mechanistically, the gate stabilizes transient “ghost” remnants of stored patterns even far above the Hopfield limit, converting them into multistable attractors. These results demonstrate that neuromodulation-like gating alone can dramatically enhance associative memory capacity, eliminate the sharp Hopfield-style catastrophic breakdown, and reshape the memory landscape, providing a simple, general route to richer memory dynamics and computational capabilities in neuromodulated circuits and neuromorphic architectures.

This bibliometric analysis explores research trends and collaborative networks surrounding the concepts of "stress memory" and "priming" in plants, with a focus on their implications for agricultural resilience. A total of 270 studies published between 2007 and 2024 were analyzed, revealing a growing interest in this relatively new area of plant science. While the global research output saw a slight decline in 2021, publication activity rebounded in 2024, reaching a peak of 51 documents in 2024. The majority of studies were published in Frontiers in Plant Science, and prominent authors such as Isabel Bäurle contributed significantly to the field. Co-authorship analysis highlighted strong international collaboration, particularly between Germany and China, with Germany emerging as the leading country in both publication volume and collaborative efforts. Keyword analysis indicated that "priming" was the most frequently used term, reflecting its central role in research on plant stress memory. The focus on genetic, epigenetic, and metabolic mechanisms provides valuable insights into how plants "remember" stress and adapt to recurring challenges. These findings underscore the multidisciplinary nature of the field, with contributions from plant physiology, molecular biology, and agricultural sciences. The results emphasize the importance of continued global collaboration and the integration of theoretical and applied research to develop climate-resilient crops. Furthermore, the high proportion of open-access publications highlights the increasing accessibility of this research, fostering wider dissemination and application of findings. This analysis provides a comprehensive understanding of the evolving landscape of stress memory and priming research, offering valuable directions for future studies aimed at enhancing agricultural sustainability and resilience.

Exploring Karachi’s Landscapes of Memory and Urban Ecology through Saeed’s The Year of Sound and Heat (2022)

For a long time, archaeological research at Dahshur has focused on material remains from the Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdom, when major royal building activities were taking place at the site. In the last few decades, however, material from earlier and later periods has received more attention, and this article will present selected archaeological finds from New Kingdom contexts, adding to the site’s long biography. More than any other period, the New Kingdom offers an impressive case study of the dynamics of cultural memory at Dahshur. Modern observers may struggle with understanding of this dynamic, which involves aspects of both commemoration and oblivion. The commemoration of long deceased kings can be traced in cultic as well as “touristic” activities in the ancient temples, while aspects of oblivion are to be found in the gradual decline of royal mortuary cults but also in destructive acts like the recycling of historic monuments and specific cases of damnatio memoriae. This article aims to explore the ambiguous nature of destruction as well as the close connection between commemoration and oblivion, arguing that the two were not necessarily conflicting from an emic point of view. A landscape of memory could at the same time be a landscape of procurement. الملخص ركزت أعمال البحث الأثري في دهشور لفترة طويلة على بقايا المواد التي تُعود إلى عصري الدولة القديمة والدولة الوسطى، عندما كانت أنشطة البناءً الملكية الكبرى تُجري في الموقع بنطاق واسع. ومع ذلك، فقد شهدت العقود القليلة الماضية اهتمام للمواد الأثرية من فترات سابقة ولاحقة، وستعرض هذه المقالة مجموعة مختارة من الاكتشافات الأثرية من سياقات الدولة الحديثة، بما يُسهم في إثراءً السيرة التاريخية الطويلة للموقع. تُقدم الدولة الحديثة، أكثر من أي فترة أخرى، دراسة حالة مثيرة لديناميكيات الذاكرة الثقافية في دهشور، وهي ديناميكيات يصعب علينا اليوم فهمها بالكامل، التي تُنطوي على جوانب من إحياءً الذكرى والنسيان في آ ٍن واحد. يمكن تُت ُبع مظاهر إحياءً ذكرى الملوك المتوفين منذ زمن طويل في الأنشطة الطقسية، وأحيانًا فيما يشبه «الأنشطة السياحية” في المعابد القديمة. وفي المقابل، تُظهر عناصر النسيان في التراجع التدريجي للطقوس الجنائزية الملكية، وكذلك في أعمال النهب، مثل إعادة استخدام مواد البناءً من المعالم التاريخية وحالات محددة من damnatio memoriae. تُهدف هذه المقالة إلى استكشاف الطابع الغامض لأعمال التدمير، بالإضافة إلى العلاقة الوثيقة بين إحياءً الذكرى والنسيان، مجادل ًة بأن هذين الجانبين لا ُيمثّلان بالضرورة تُناق ًضا من منظو ٍر شمولي، إذ ُيمكن لمشهد الذاكرة أن يكون في الوقت نفسه مشه ًدا

The article addresses the inclusion of professional archaeology in the field of public representation and the evaluations of the mass audience. Based on the synthesis of sociological research results conducted by the authors from 2021 to the present (on a representative sample of 500 respondents - residents of the city of Chelyabinsk); as well as on the analysis of secondary data (a study of respondents from 9 countries conducted by the European partnership NEARCH), the work presents various aspects of the perception of archaeological knowledge and the archaeologist’s profession. The study also considers the specific case of subjective strategies for engaging various groups of tourist-visitors with the unique memorial landscape - the archaeological site of Arkaim (located in the Southern Urals). Conclusions are based on quantitative materials (a survey of 340 informants who visited the territory of the Arkaim museum-reserve) and qualitative data using the methodology of ethnographic approach (authors’ personal participation in field expeditions), including observation of visitors, unstructured interviews (40 informants), and landscape mapping. A separate research direction concerns the informational support of archaeological activities, which contributes to expanding the boundaries of archaeology (transforming into “public archaeology”). The study records a “gap” in the informational motivation of the Russian audience (desire to receive information about archaeological finds and discoveries), along with real strategies of information involvement in the media agenda. The analysis of the obtained responses highlights the key problem of the lack of accessible channels for the general public to obtain information about archaeological knowledge. Among the European audience, the authors note interest in informational and educational content representing archaeological themes (tourism, films and reports dedicated to archaeologists and their work), which is reflected in the high level of awareness of European respondents about archaeological attractions and monuments. A conclusion is drawn about the active involvement of the general public in the field of archaeology in various aspects of its exploration, expressed in the demand for symbolic interpretation of the past (involvement in historical memory), the dominance of alternative (“profane”) interpretations over scientific archaeological discourse. The negative consequences of archaeology emergence into the wider public space include the actualization of neo-pagan practices and movements. Overall, archaeological heritage is perceived and consolidated in the consciousness of the mass audience in the form of an “archaeological myth”.

This article is a review of Kenneth E. Foote and Anett Árvay’s book Contested Places, Contested Pasts: Sites of Memory and Commemoration in the Hungarian Landscape, published in 2025 by Routledge; ISBN: 9781032870274.

ABSTRACT The article examines spatial and temporal markers of memory relevant to the Chechen Republic in the 2020s. Spatial markers include toponymy and monuments from various historical periods. The Chechen capital’s memorial landscape is dominated by the Soviet era, while roughly one-third of the streets are named after contemporary figures. The article also examines holidays and memorial days. It shows that Chechnya’s memorial calendar has been updated, with most holidays and commemorative dates having national or religious features. Chechens forget old memorable dates and monuments and passively accept new ones, showing their rejection of an imposed socio-cultural reality.

This article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the symbolic capital of the Arkaim Museum-Reserve as a unique socio- cultural and communicative phenomenon. The object of the study is Arkaim itself, considered in the context of the actively developing practices of its visitors. The subject of the study is the complex structure and specific mechanisms for the formation of the symbolic capital of its memorial landscape, which are reconstructed through a scrupulous analysis of communicative and deeply mediatized practices. The latter include oral narratives and legends, the active creation and replication of visual user content, as well as rituals of symbolic exchange. The purpose of the work is to identify and comprehensively analyze the structure and mechanisms for the formation of Arkaim’s symbolic capital, interpreted as a communicative and media phenomenon generated by the visitors themselves. The empirical basis of the study is fieldwork data, including 11 protocols of participant observation. A set of methods is used for their analysis: axial coding, semiotic and frame analysis. As a result, it has been proven that the symbolic capital of the territory is produced not only by the official scientific and historical status of Arkaim, but also spontaneously - through rituals (offerings, passing spirals), mediation of meanings by guides and, most importantly, through digital representation of personal experience in social networks. This process directly correlates with the modern trend of forming media competencies, where visitors act as prosumers - active producers and distributors of content, critically comprehending and completing official meanings. It has been established that the stability of capital is ensured by the communicative nature of practices, the polyvalence of sign systems and the ability to flexibly redefine reality. Thus, the study makes a significant contribution to the study of media images of territories and reveals the central role of non-professional, but media-competent agents in the production of symbolic meanings in the modern media space.

This article examines the communicative functioning of rhythmic structures within the memorial landscape of the Arkaim archaeological site. The purpose of the research is to identify, substantiate, and describe the nature, formation factors, and functional characteristics of rhythmic constructions in this space as a means of activating its symbolic capital. The study is based on 33 “thick descriptions” gathered during ten expeditions to Arkaim between May 2023 and August 2025. The methodology combines Cli ord Geertz’s concept of thick description with multimodal discourse analysis to identify recurring elements in visitors’ behavior and the surrounding environment.The study demonstrates that rhythmic structures at Arkaim emerge from the interaction of natural, cultural, behavioral, and sensory factors: landscape rhythms (river meanders, lines of the steppe and sky), repetitive architectural and memorial elements (dolmens, stone spirals), and visitors’ ritual and spiritual practices. Particular attention is paid to the synthesis of visual, auditory, and tactile rhythms, which create a sense of wholeness and foster a “system of expectations” among visitors. The phenomenon of arrhythmia - disruptions in stable rhythms - is analyzed as a dramatic device that enriches the perception of space.The findings show that rhythm performs not only an aesthetic but also a communicative and identificational function: it ensures sustained interaction with cultural memory, allows for a free choice of engagement forms with the space, and facilitates the creation of meaningful “rhymes” between past and present. Rhythmic constructions, combined with a system of images, transform the memorial landscape of Arkaim into a text-like structure capable of multi-level interpretation and spiritual exploration.