Media Archaeologies, Micro-archives And Storytelling: Re-presencing The Past (palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
by Martin Pogačar /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book argues that today we live in the culture of the past
that delimits our world and configures our potentialities. It
explores how the past invades our presents and investigates the
affective uses of the past in the increasingly elusive present.
Remembering and forgetting are part of everyday life, popular
culture, politics, ideologies and mythologies. In the time of the
ubiquitous digital media, the ways individuals and collectivities
re-presence their pasts and how they think about the present and
the future have undergone significant changes. The book
focuses on affective micro-archives of the memories of the
socialist Yugoslavia and investigates their construction as part
of the media archaeological practices. The author further argues
that these affective practices present a way to reassemble the
historical and relegitimize individual biographies which
disintegrated along with the country in 1991.
This book argues that today we live in the culture of the past
that delimits our world and configures our potentialities. It
explores how the past invades our presents and investigates the
affective uses of the past in the increasingly elusive present.
Remembering and forgetting are part of everyday life, popular
culture, politics, ideologies and mythologies. In the time of the
ubiquitous digital media, the ways individuals and collectivities
re-presence their pasts and how they think about the present and
the future have undergone significant changes. The book
focuses on affective micro-archives of the memories of the
socialist Yugoslavia and investigates their construction as part
of the media archaeological practices. The author further argues
that these affective practices present a way to reassemble the
historical and relegitimize individual biographies which
disintegrated along with the country in 1991.
