Abstract

ROCA I GIRONA, Jordi. Vidas (re)decoradas, metáforas biográficas: de la memoria industrial a la (des)memoria postmoderna. Cuad. Sur, Hist. [online]. 2005, n.34, pp. 201-220. ISSN 1668-7604.

Using the general framework that dealt with the relationship between the individual and the society within Social Sciences, this article aims to investigate the biographical changes that accompanied the transition from the industrial society to the post-industrial society and its effect on the process of constructing both individual and collective memory. Some hypotheses about the significance of this process are provided. Therefore, some of the metaphors that have been created to explain and understand these changes are analyzed and the significance of Alzheimer's disease is discussed as a possible metaphor of the present age of (lack of) memory.

Keywords : Memory; Biography; Industrial Society; Post-Industrial Society; Metaphors.