Silence, Screen, and Spectacle

Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-280-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 532 g

Reihe: Remapping Cultural History

In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord’s notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past. Perhaps now “spectacle” can be thought of not as a tool of distraction employed solely by hegemonic powers, but instead as a device used to answer Walter Benjamin’s plea to “explode the continuum of history” and bring our attention to now-time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freeman, Lindsey A.

Nienass, Benjamin

Daniell, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments   

Introduction

Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell

PART I: SPECTACULAR MEMORY: MEMORY AND APPEARANCE IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION

Chapter 1. Haunted by the Spectre of Communism: Spectacle and Silence in Hungary’s House of Terror

Amy Sodaro

Chapter 2. Making Visible: Reflexive Narratives at the Manzanar U.S. National Historic Site

Rachel Daniell

Chapter 3. The Everyday as Spectacle: Archival Imagery and the Work of Reconciliation in Canada

Naomi Angel

PART II: SCREENING ABSENCE: NEW TECHNOLOGY, AFFECT, AND MEMORY

Chapter 4. Viral Affiliations: Facebook, Queer Kinship, and the Memory of the Disappeared in Contemporary Argentina

Cecilia Sosa

Chapter 5. Learning by Heart: Humming, Singing, Memorizing in Israeli Memorial Videos

Laliv Melamed

Chapter 6. Arcade Mode: Remembering, Revisiting, and Replaying the American Video Arcade

Samuel Tobin

PART III: SILENCE AND MEMORY: ERASURES, STORYTELLING, AND KITSCH

Chapter 7. Remembering Forgetting: A Monument to Erasure at the University of North Carolina

Timothy J. McMillan

Chapter 8. The Power of Conflicting Memories in European Transnational Social Movements

Nicole Doerr

Chapter 9. Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Postcommunist Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland

Joanna Michlic

Chapter 10. 1989 as Collective Memory “Refolution”: East-Central Europe Confronts Memorial Silence

Susan C. Pearce

Conclusion: Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information and New Media

Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell

List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Daniell, Rachel
Rachel Daniell is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY and works with the Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense (EAAF). Her research examines everyday social practices around data and documents that contribute to the visibility of human rights violations.

Nienass, Benjamin
Benjamin Nienass is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at California State University San Marcos. His research is concerned with the politics of memory in postnational contexts, particularly in the European Union.

Freeman, Lindsey A.
Lindsey A. Freeman is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia and a co-editor of The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures from Poe to Punk.

Lindsey A. Freeman is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia and a co-editor of The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures from Poe to Punk.