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Book SynopsisMemory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful objects that we love (or hate) function not only as aide-mÃmoire but are integral to memory. Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality, this book applies recent theories of new materialism to explore the material dimension of memory in art and popular culture. The bookâs underlying premise is twofold: on the one hand, memory is performed, mediated, and stored through the material world that surrounds us; on the other hand, inanimate objects and things also have agency on their own, which affects practices of memory, as well as forgetting.
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"This book arises from authors doing rigorous interdisciplinary work and demonstrates just the kind of Swiss army knife of intellectual tools needed to tackle the problems and puzzles of memory and materiality." --Lindsey A. Freeman, State University of New York-Buffalo State, USA
Table of ContentsPrelude: The Memory Cabinet of Mrs. K. 1960
A poem by Susan Stewart
1. Things to Remember: Introduction to Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
(László Munteán, Liedeke Plate, and Anneke Smelik)
Part I: Material Remains: Ruins and Souvenirs
2. El Helicoide: Modern Ruins and the Urban Imaginary
(Celeste Olalquiaga)
3. Souvenirs and Memory Manipulation in the Roman Empire: The Glass Flasks of Ancient Pozzuoli
(Maggie L. Popkin)
Part II: Entangled Memories
4. How Memory Comes to Matter: From Social Media to the Internet of Things
(Elisa Giaccardi and Liedeke Plate)
5. Memory and Materiality in Hussein Chalayan’s Techno-Fashion
(Lianne Toussaint and Anneke Smelik)
6. Size Matters: Karl Ove Knausgård’s Min Kamp and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 as (Anti-) Monumental Novels
(Inge van de Ven)
Part III: Reenactment, Affect, and Remembrance
7. Archives of Affect: Performance, Reenactment, and the Becoming of Memory
(Louis van den Hengel)
8. Crystal Tears and Silver Maces: Materializing Memories of the Suffering Mother
(Willy Jansen)
9. The Staging of Memory in Los Rubios by Albertina Carri
(Anna Forné)
Part IV: Corporeality and Objects of Trauma
10. Chilling Burlesque: The Act of Killing
(Aleid Fokkema)
11. Modeling the Memories of Others: David Levinthal’s I.E.D. War in Afghanistan and Iraq
(László Munteán)
