This is not a rememberance of singularity : memo-abstractions, machines, and ambiance

Easy to access, clear-cut demarcations of memory are the most common modes of\ud approach, for the rememberer, a process of drawing out specific events, emotions, places\ud and information directed towards the needs of the present. Still, other kinds of memory\ud remain - memories having nothing to do with ???what took place??? - but modes of memory\ud concerned with affects, ghosts, and ephemera that always-at-once hover above and below\ud the remembered event. By mobilizing two terms of my invention heavily informed by\ud various theorists and neuroscience studies, the aim of this article is to highlight the\ud processes of memory formation generated by a mechanical memory, or the interworkings\ud of how a past event can be instantly brought forth and used, and how this kind of\ud remembering becomes subjected to the forces of chaos, or an ambient memory - nonhuman\ud memories of abstraction that do not originate with the subject yet wedge their way\ud into whatever it is to be remembered. How does memory of the non-human impact\ud human-centered memory? What happens when the mechanical and ambient coalesce, or\ud when one is deleted altogether? After setting up a theoretical approach to these kinds of\ud memory, I will offer potential hatchings, abortions and mutations of the\ud mechanical/ambient within the regions of social media and experimental cinema in an\ud attempt to sketch out possible outcomes generated by mechanical/ambient relationships