homogenous second brain models

models of a second brain are based on a few common ideas rather than diverse brains with diverse purpose/structure/usage

  • Smolicki problematizes the haunting canon of the Memex as fitting new technologies onto its metaphor ‘tends to conflate the dynamics of (human) memory with that of (technological) storage’ and ‘reproduces[s] the logic of progressivism’ (Smolicki, 2017)