Memory, Culture, Forgetting

[H] Chapter 1: Dreams and Memory Images.

[H] Chapter 2: Language and Memory.

[H] Chapter 3: The Reconstruction of the Past.

Hacking, Ian. “Memoro-Politics.” Chapter 15 in Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory . Princeton University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780691036427.

Schacter, Daniel L. “The Memory Wars: Seeking Truth in the Line of Fire.” Chapter 9 in Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past . Basic Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780465075522.

Nora, Pierre. “General Introduction: Between Memory and History.” In Realms of Memory: Rethinking the Past, Vol. 1 – Conflicts and Divisions . Columbia University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780231084048.

Foote, Kenneth E. “The Veneration of Heroes and Martyrs.” Chapter 2 in Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy . University of Texas Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780292705258.

Musil, Robert. “Monuments.” In Posthumous Papers of a Living Author . Translated from the German by Peter Wortsman. Archipelago, 2006. ISBN: 9780976395041.

Berdahl, Daphne. “Foreword by Michael Herzfeld.” In On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany . Edited and with an introduction by Matti Bunzl. Indiana University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780253221704.

———. “Goodbye Lenin, Aufwiedersehen GDR: On the Social Life of Socialism.” Chapter 9 in On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany . Edited and with an introduction by Matti Bunzl. Indiana University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780253221704.

WEEK #: 9 · TOPICS: Midterm · READINGS: No readings assigned

[R] Chapter 1: The Lost and the Saved.

[R] Chapter 2: New Media and Social Memory.

[R] Chapter 3: Death by Technology.

[R] Chapter 4: Variability Machines.

[R] Chapter 5: Metadata and the Historic Record.

[R] Chapter 6: Death by Institution.

[R] Chapter 7: The Open Museum.

[R] Chapter 8: Generation Emulation.

[R] Chapter 9: Death by Law.

[R] Chapter 10: Unreliable Archivists.

[R] Chapter 11: Variable Organisms.

[R] Chapter 12: Checking In.

[R] Chapter 13: Only You Can Prevent the End of History.