O Esquecimento de Segunda Ordem: Sobre a Saturação da Memória e a Crise Do Sentido Na Era Digital

This article introduces the concept of second-order forgetting as a philosophical category that reflects a unique mutation in the contemporary experience of memory. Unlike classical forgetting — associated with absence, repression, or trauma — this new model arises from hyperconservation and redundancy. In an age of hyper-archiving, where everything is saved, processed, and recorded, excessive remembering prevents memory from generating meaning. Instead of failure, saturation predominates. Based on a theoretical articulation of Nietzsche (active forgetting as vital power), Ricoeur (hyperthymesia and loss of narrative), Heidegger (forgetting of Being and emptying of the symbol), Derrida (archive as power and exclusion), Byung-Chul Han (society of positivity), and Agamben (inoperability and resistance), the article explores the collapse of the symbolic in the digital age. The literary-philosophical work The Last Grain of Sand serves as an allegorical and dramaturgical axis, portraying a society where everything is saved, but nothing remains alive in meaning. Finally, it proposes as an ethical and political response the recovery of listening and the curatorship of fragments and vestiges.