...Jason Stevens Duke University Press 2007 Interventions Should We Forget Reinhold Niebuhr? The theologian and political ethicist Reinhold Niebuhr died in 1971, but ritualistically liberals and members of the Christian Left...

...Donald E. Pease © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Immigrant Nation/Nativist State: Remembering Against an Archive of Forgetfulness Donald E. Pease A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United...

...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:3 / sheet 33 of 252 6943 boundar A Rumor of War: 9/11 and the Forgetting of the Vietnam War William V. Spanos...

... as significant expressions in the “constructive work of bold sociological analysis.” There is a fairly high risk that what we experience will be lost forever to a forgetfulness that is hopelessly closed off from the flow of life. The objective in this essay is to offer a preliminary provisional account of what...

... on Scott’s work and calls for replacing history with “postempiricism,” a possibility he locates in literature. A third contributor, Ananda Abeysekara, proposes a radically dehistoricized present that is forged through the Nietzschean notion of “active forgetting.” In rejecting the legacies of British...

... and provides the material for forgiveness, and there is a kind of forgetting alongside it—the necessary cell-based­ kind—that can be a psychic savior. I know now that my elliptical memory is likely linked to my body’s habits of self-protection—­ to close down a part of the mind so that a parallel self...

... nous, elles ont vaincu la mort et reviennent vivre avec nous.20 Habit, in allowing us to forget, allows us also to inhabit a particular place. Memory is precisely the emancipation from such located identity—but the price of such memory is the death and resurrection of the self, in an identity...

... the ‘‘it self or loss. Forget transfiguration forget frisson while it is impossible, think you are going beyond any pattern in the aesthetics we know forget ‘‘point’’ or end try maybe gridded series of embeddings and strange angles; prime the lines with bolts of dark. Over...

... to this immediate vagabond immobility, that, beyond the initial and necessary exercise of forgetting, memory can return and work, a memory itself capable of refreshing experience. Otherwise to give sense, some value for the present, to this otherwise senseless present. For which subjects? For which...

... way of forgetting. GSM: Why must the future already be inscribed in the past? WB: Only when time stops, only when the scales fall from our eyes, only Shadowtime is an opera-in-progress that I am writing for composer Brian...

... of otherness and the unknowable heightened by their unavoid- ability, an overriding fear of death that does not recognize itself as such, and the construction of self-­sustaining myths of redemption, conservation, and forgetfulness that aim to alter or replace existing structures in the world. In effect...

... are merely human without the heroism. This is a transformation of the imitatio Christi idea of role model, today emphasized in faith-based­ leadership initiatives. We can- not forget that this is the substance of the greatest genre the world has seen, not confined to Hellenic culture alone: tragedy...

... apparatuses as the notions of “the human” and “the human condition” themselves. In the face of such discur- sive inventions, so powerfully interrogated by Foucault throughout his life, Spanos calls for an incessant resistance to the forgetting of contingency in the name of order—­an order, he reminds...

... modernization argument still being hawked by social scientists that insists on the presence of secularism, not traditional religiosity, to qualify a nation for fascist credentialing. But this historical leap must ignore the role played by religion in fascist Italy, Spain, even Germany, not to forget...

... to forget the dimension of class. But this forget- ting prevails in the majority of the references to and diverse visions of the national in Cuba today. It is understandable that it seems in bad taste to speak of classes, especially...

... historical and historiographical dialectic of memory and forgetting; ‘‘out of such oblivions, in specific historical cir- cumstances, spring narratives 1 In this essay, I will focus on the formation...

.... In the 1934 essay, Benjamin comments, there is “a tempest [Sturm] that blows from forgetting, and study is a cavalry attack against it [ein Ritt, der dagegen angeht]” (Benjamin 1999b: 814 / 1977: 2: 36).14 Eric Santner observes, “This storm will, of course, return in the famous allegorical read- ing...

... killed many Hutu, so they should remember also our people who died during that period.” See Susanne Buckley-Zistel, “Remembering to Forget: Chosen Amnesia as a Strategy for Local Coexistence in Post-Genocidal Rwanda,” Africa 76, no. 2 (2006): 138. 160  boundary 2  /  Summer 2009 modes...

... stockpiling, the inability to lose or forget. The latest versions of the software application Photos on Apple Macs take the initiative in “reminding” you at regular intervals that you have a “new memory” and present you with images from your past, stored on your computer and curated by algorithm. In our...

... remember? Whatever do we choose? And of course there is the related matter of what and who we decide to forget—what literary history, to my view, is to discover and forget. Brooks and Vernon L. Parrington and Lewis Mumford did break open the canon. Mark Twain was taken seriously...