Sherlock and the memory palace

• Autor(a) principal: de Moura Delfim Maciel, Ana Carolina
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: ArtCultura (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/61864
• topic: História; memória; audiovisua; History; memory; audiovisual

In the present text the mnemonic system recently adapted for the BBC series Sherlock, suggestively referred to as a “mind palace" or “memory palace” is analyzed. It is a sort of psychic exercise that allows Holmes to “revisit" his past. In this mental space the protagonist consults “archives” of data (texts and images) that are stored in his mind in its details. This “power” makes it possible for him to memorize, recall and visualize everything. The age-old technique from the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos is here compared with the virtuality of storage processes in the “virtual palaces” of nowadays, as the own idea of archiving as a way of preserving and recreating the idea of past.