Regimes Of Memory

Description: In recent years memory has attracted increasing attention. From analyses of electronic communication and the Internet to discussions of heritage culture, to debates about victimhood and sexual abuse, memory is currently generating much cultural interest. This interdisciplinary collection takes a journey through memory in order to contextualise this current 'memory boom'. Regimes of Memory focuses on memory's 'outside' Individual essays by many of the foremost international scholars in memory studies trace memory's intimate association with identity and recognition, with cities, with lived time, with the science of the mind, with fantasy and with the media. The difference between western and non-western concepts of memory is also explored and the importance of contemporary western preoccupations with memory to western ideas of history, identity, and the relation between the personal and public is demonstrated. Regimes of Memory will be of essential interest to those working in the fields of Cultural Studies, History and also Anthropology. Table of Contents: 1. Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin Regimes of Memory: An Introduction Part I - Believing the Body 2. Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin Introduction 3. Jill Bennett The Aesthetics of Sense-Memory: Theorising Trauma Through the Visual Arts 4. Tony Bennett Stored Virtue: Memory, the Body and the Evolutionary Museum Part II - Propping the Subject 5. Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin Introduction 6. William N. West 'No Endlesse Moniment': Artificial Memory and Memorial Artifact in Early Modern England 7. Stephan Feuchtwang Loss: Transmissions, Recognitions, Authorisations Part III - What Memory Forgets: Models of the Mind 8. Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin Introduction 9. Paul Antze The Other Inside: Memory as Metaphor in Psychoanalysis 10. Constantina Papoulias From the Agora to the Junkyard: Social Memory and Psychic Materialities Part IV - What History Forgets: Memory and Time 11. Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin Introduction 12. Bill Schwarz 'Already the Past': Memory and Historical Time 13. Karl Figlio Getting to the Beginning: Identification and Concrete Thinking in Historical Consciousness Part V - Memory Beyond the Modern 14. Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin Introduction 15. Esther Leslie Absent-Minded Professors: Etch-a-Sketching Academic Forgetting 16. Richard Terdiman Given Memory: On Mnemonic Coercion, reproduction and invention 17. Michael Lambek Memory in a Maussian Universe