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...John Armitage Paul Virilio, who passed away in 2018, was a significant figure in the study of cultural politics, as both pioneer and guide. This article prepares first-time readers for an encounter with Virilio’s critical thinking and essential writings and offers a personal remembrance by John...

...Robert M. Bednar This article explores affect and memory at roadside car crash memorials within the context of what Achille Mbembe calls “necropolitics”: the performance of power to determine who legitimately can kill both persons and the memory of persons. By analyzing the ritualized performance...

...Jack Palmer Abstract Reflecting on the author's role in establishing, cataloging, and interpreting the personal papers of Zygmunt Bauman, this article ponders central questions related to working on and with the archives of public intellectuals. It addresses the role that intellectuals, and Bauman...

...; and a remembrance of the dead for the living. 1. Sue Coe has many publications of her work, including the books: Pit's Letter (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000); X (A book about Malcolm X) (The New Press, 1986); Dead Meat , with an essay by Alexander Cockburn (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995). 2...

... taken from ancient sites reconstructed under the Communist regime to signify domination” and then later taken and used again in the rebuilding of churches (p. 110). Thus here Schofield is able to distinguish between modes of remembrance of a personal kind and much broader categories of “reappropriation...

... with my grandparents, immigrants from Ireland and England. I was shocked by how much they were interested in talking about Trump and the protest. I got to see my grandmother as a person and a woman while she discussed her own experiences in Ireland. It was overwhelming to talk about the rise of fascism...

... present condition. Finally, Shaw's work is examined in relation to theories of autobiographical memory and childhood development to show how the postwar council estate had an indelible effect on the formation of Shaw's personal and cultural identity. © 2013 Ian Waites 2013 George Shaw council...

... proyectos presentados al Concurso en homenaje a los detenidos desaparecidos y asesinados por el terrorismo de estado en la Argentina . Buenos Aires : Eudeba . CONADEP (National Commission on Disappeared Persons) . 1986 . Nunca Mas: The Report of the Argentine National Commission on the Disappeared...

... Remembrance Association through the injunction against criticizing the state of Israel), the controversy exploded around the Indonesian collective Taring Padi's monumental twenty-six-foot-high mural, which had been installed in the Friedrichsplatz, one of documenta 's most visible venues, and a public space...

... to which, after an experiential engagement with a representation of a past event, one feels a personal, affective connection. I have argued that prosthetic memories are most productive when one is brought into proximity to a past event, but not through simple identification with past historical actors...

... not shown their works inside of Iran for decades. Personally, I had two unsuccessful solo exhibitions in Iran after my immigration in 2010 and 2013, but after the second exhibition I decided not to exhibit my works in my home country. I’m not sure I have an audience in Iran. MF: Exile is a key concept...

..., abruptly came into view. We had imagined that we would initially say a few words of remembrance and reflect on Baudrillard’s contribution to contemporary cultural and visual theory. But it has to be admitted that, instead, visuality consumed us and we began photographing Baudrillard’s tomb...

... into secular life-spaces which were not initially intended for them. The spatial transgression of the veil challenges both traditional Muslim conceptions as well as secular feminist ones. By being personally covered and publicly pious, Muslim women expose a sense of agency that works against the “Orientalist...

... walls, standing, still proud and erect, no matter what your faith, then surely you must feel a need to build a temple in your hearts in remembrance of he who preserved them for you.” During the following funeral procession, we enter the convent, where the nuns are trying to catch a glimpse...

..., can you tell us about the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (or Remembrance); the legislative background and context in which it was established? What concerns motivated you to write a letter, along with seventy other historians, to the president of the Ukraine in 2016, to reconsider the passing...

... to an edition of documenta in 2027 without any major structural changes. The interview focused precisely on this dichotomy between German remembrance culture and cultural funding on the one hand, and global movements and international solidarity on the other, while combining the question of what...

... Jane , 16 – 21 . London : Routledge . Kerr Joe . 2001 . “ The Uncompleted Monument: London, War, and the Architecture of Remembrance .” In The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space , edited by Borden Iain Kerr Joe Rendell Jane Pivaro Alicia...

... the ephemera of everyday objects. In the eponymous assemblage “Gun-carriage,” for example, Vivan Sundaram reuses a crude transportation device for a disabled person, presenting it as the nation's privileged vehicle of memorialization. An improvised platform on wheels, this rough prosthetic is often visible...

... with playing the game as allegories for our increasingly complex relationship to digital culture. Minecraft is not the apotheosis of cultural domination by code as much as it is a playable parable about its complications. Given that we are already embroiled in a chain of mediated remembrances, how does...

... Cultural Revolution participants. That is too tall an order and not finally her point. But on the basis not just of numerous personal conversations with former participants but also texts like Jiang Wen's 1994 film In the Heat of the Sun as well as several scholarly works, I cannot help but think...