THE HOUSE THAT REMEMBERS
AESTHETIC INFORMATION AND MEMORY IN SANGATSU NO LION
Keywords:
cultural memory, aesthetic information, information regime, manga, Sangatsu no LionAbstract
Information Science has consolidated theoretical frameworks oriented toward textual objects and institutional archives, producing a blind spot for the affective dimension of collective experience that resists verbal discourse. This study proposes that manga operates as an information regime capable of rendering that dimension legible through aesthetic devices that escape the textual register. Drawing on a qualitative theoretical-analytical orientation, the research takes as its corpus the first four volumes of Sangatsu no Lion, analyzed through three hierarchically ordered categories: graphic variation, memory space, and embodied memory. Graphic variation functions as the structuring mechanism: it organizes the Kawamoto household as a metonymic carrier of the presence of the absent and renders legible, through visual silence, shogi as a practice of bodily transmission and intergenerational cultural memory. The three devices confirm the central argument: the operationalization of aesthetic information as an instrument within Information Science for describing objects whose constitutive effects are irreducible to the textual regime.