Plenitude, scarcity and the circulation of cultural memory

Argues the need for the conceptualization of cultural memory, not as merely derivative of individual psychology, but in terms of a working memory that is constructed and reconstructed in public acts of remembrance and evolves according to distinctly cultural mechanisms. Applicability of Michael Foucault's scarcity principle; Role of media in generating shared memories through processes of selection, convergence, recursivity and transfer; Emphasis on the way memories are communicated, circulated and exchanged.