Enacting memories through and with things: Remembering as material engagement

For mainstream theories, memory is a skull-bound activity consisting of encoding, storing and retrieving representations. Conversely, unorthodox perspectives proposed that an extended process includes material resources. This article explains why neither representationalist nor classical stances do justice to the active constitutive role culture for cognition. From Material Engagement Theory, we propose alternative enactive, ecological, semiotic viewpoint which remembering way materially engaging with through things. Specifically, suggest one remembers when updates their interactions world, form engagement previously acquired sociomaterial practices. Moreover, argue things are full-fledged memories, since they accumulate bring forth how have engaged them over different timescales. Last, highlight need studies considering cognitive ecologies where takes place in its full complexity.