ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the idea of remembering as a form of distributed cognition that is accomplished in a relationally constituted life-space. The life-space of the tick described by Gilles Deleuze is constituted by three invariant features in relation to light, smell and warmth, which afford different but intersecting planes of action. The chapter focuses on the crucial role played by affect and by practices of managing accessibility to the past, or 'forgetting'. It also presents analyses of a range of experiences, channelled mostly via verbal and visual materials. The rich contours of these wonderfully complex memorial narratives are read with a view to expanding upon a more nuanced understanding of how memories are constantly woven through the affective and ethical engagements individuals. Richard Semon conceived of memory as the creation of memory traces or engrams within the organism through its efforts to retain the impact of external stimuli upon it.
