Volume 4, Number 1, February 2024
Memory: Sites, Trauma and Materiality, Memoria: Trauma, Sitios y Materialidad
Search Results
For items tagged with: rhetoric
Artificial Memory?
Abstract This brief essay examines the impact new technologies, like augmented reality and AI creations, are impacting public memory. While there are many concerns about the erosion of authenticity, some artists are using new technologies to create a more diverse, robust, and optimistic version of the memory landscape. Memory Connection has long served as a […]
The Profanity of Memory: Temporality and the Rhetoric of ‘Too Soon’
The temporality of public memory is perhaps most evident when there are objections that some irreverent comment is made ‘too soon’ after a traumatic event. This essay explores this dimension of sacred temporality and a corollary sense of sacred space in relation to moments and spaces of remembrance.