Volume 4, Number 1, February 2024
Memory: Sites, Trauma and Materiality, Memoria: Trauma, Sitios y Materialidad
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Fragments of/on Memory
Cultures of memory cultivate our memory by encouraging the displacement of exterior historical events by the interiority of singular memory, rendered collective through an ethics and politics of empathic communicability. The assumption being that, while we are the products of history, we are the producers of memory, and thus can be held responsible for what […]
Hazard Figures: Heritage, Memorial, and Wasting in Appalachia
At approximately 3:00 p.m. on 5 April 2010 a cloud of methane gas exploded in a mine near Montcoal, West Virginia. Twenty-five miners died instantly, and for the next five days national and international news associations tracked efforts to rescue four miners believed to have sought refuge in a nearby air pocket. It was a […]