The Poetics of Memory.

The article focuses on a poetics of memory which literalizes a post-retrieval idea of memory. It characterizes writing as a technology of memory, and memory as tekhne, writing. It offers a definition of a poetics of memory that acknowledges the reversibility of memory, simultaneously enacting a poetics of forgetting, and one which is a performative writing which breaks down the action/speech binary. It is the author's aim to rethink the relationality, or the mutual articulation, of the concepts of memory and writing.