Andrew Hoskins – interviewed by Huw Halstead – discusses the tensions and paradoxes of memory and place in the connective era. Digital media liberate memory from the spatial archive, but they also create a connective compulsion and dependency, a disconnect from the present moment and a loss of control over memory. The overwhelming abundance and immediacy of digital data breed a placelessness of the digital traces of ourselves, an algorithmic narrowing of information, knowledge and life. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified this compulsion to record to such an extent that it may be considered a new memory boom, an obsessive desire to remember. Locative and mobile technology may seem to locate us in space more than ever before, but they do so in ways that are beyond our comprehension: our smartphones know more about our locatedness than we do, ushering in a ‘new grey’ in digital memory. Yet, it is critical to be aware of the variegated geography of connective memory – and of Memory Studies itself.

安德鲁·霍斯金斯（Andrew Hoskins）——接受休·霍尔斯特德（Huw Halstead）采访——讨论了连接时代中记忆和地点的紧张和矛盾。数字媒体从空间档案中解放了记忆，但它们也产生了一种连接强迫和依赖，与当下的脱节和对记忆的失去控制。数字数据压倒性的丰富性和即时性导致我们自己的数字痕迹的无处可去，信息、知识和生活的算法缩小。COVID-19 大流行加剧了这种记录的强迫性，以至于它可能被认为是一种新的记忆热潮，一种对记忆的强迫性渴望。定位和移动技术似乎比以往任何时候都更能在太空中定位我们，但它们以超出我们理解的方式做到这一点：我们的智能手机比我们更了解我们的位置，迎来数字记忆的“新灰色”。然而，重要的是要意识到连接记忆的多样化地理——以及记忆研究本身。