Memory and information in sci-fi: a point of temporal meeting La Jetée and Twelve Monkeys

Authors

  • Carmen Irene Oliveira Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
  • Leila Beatriz Ribeiro Professora Adjunta III da Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO/Programa de Pòs-Graduação em Memória Social – PPGMS.
  • Valéria Cristina Lopes Wilke Professora Adjunta I da Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO

Keywords:

Temporality. Information. Memory. Science fiction – Films.

Abstract

This paper discusses issues concerning temporality, memory and information as the basis in contemporary paradigms of social memory, philosophy and information science. Its object is the film narrative and it is assumed that this narrative works in conjunction with information on the organizing action of narrating. It is observed that in the filmic narratives analyzed there are thematic convergences in two productions: La Jetée (1962) and Twelve Monkeys (1995). The paper problematizes the concepts of mediation, as an element which enables the mediation and negotiation of informational content as well as the social representations, approaching them to the social imaginary. It considers the approach and the difference between the two productions. The conclusion is that the information as an element of reference in the motion of time travel is, in both narratives, mediating the points of space-time traveled by the protagonists.

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Author Biographies

Carmen Irene Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Professora Adjunto I, Departamento de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais da UNIRIO; áreas: ciência da informação, memória e educação.

Leila Beatriz Ribeiro, Professora Adjunta III da Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO/Programa de Pòs-Graduação em Memória Social – PPGMS.

Doutora em Ciência da Informação pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro –UFRJ/Instituto Brasileiro de Informação Científica e Tecnológica – IBICT. Professora Adjunta III da Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO/Programa de Pòs-Graduação em Memória Social – PPGMS.

Valéria Cristina Lopes Wilke, Professora Adjunta I da Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO

Doutora em Ciência da Informação pela Universidade Federal Fluminense –UFF/Instituto Brasileiro de Informação Científica e Tecnológica – IBICT. Professora Adjunta I da Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO

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Published

2011-07-21

How to Cite

OLIVEIRA, C. I.; RIBEIRO, L. B.; WILKE, V. C. L. Memory and information in sci-fi: a point of temporal meeting La Jetée and Twelve Monkeys. Em Questão, Porto Alegre, v. 17, n. 1, p. 179–194, 2011. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/18851. Acesso em: 10 may. 2025.

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Vol. 17 No. 1 (2011)

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