he critical to post-human approach is based on the concept that memory is not additive, rather narrative: memories shape a changing story, while digital mediums operate only by storing data. Accumulation and addition, characteristic of digital data, displace the narrative essence of memory. Only narratives can imbue meaning and endure. The digital realm, governed by numerical order, lacks the depth of historical and memorial context, resulting in a fragmentation of life. Han (2022) says that memory is a narrative fabric. The memory traces are alive, the device that saves the data is dead. The stored data always remain the same as themselves. Died. Living things do not allow themselves to be transformed into data and information. (85). [SD-11]
[Han, 2022].
Memory Is Not Additive, But Narrative

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Yes, I think this is a fair characterization of Han’s perspective, and it bears noting that memory (the 4th canon of rhetoric) is wholly redrawn as digitalization runs amok, untempered. On p. 26-27 of Non-Things, Han essentially asks, if smartphones are so cherished a transitional object, why are we always discarding them for the latest-best next one?