Trickbox of memory
Subtitle: essays on power and disorderly pasts
By: Felicitas Macgilchrist & Rosalie Metro (eds.).
Publisher: Punctum books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: [Goleta, California]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781953035240; 9781953035257
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Memory (Philosophy); Memory; Political aspects; Historiography; Collective memory; Power (Philosophy)
Description: "The essays in Trickbox of Memory: Essays on Power and Disorderly Pasts draw on literary criticism, post-qualitative inquiry, new materialisms, and political activism to dismember and reanimate the field of memory studies. In the trickbox, concepts rub up against each other, pieces chip off, things leak, glitter gets everywhere. Things are damaged, their edges are ragged. Some show the potential for repair in the future. The chapters in this volume respond to the observation that in today's moment of political danger, "expected" pasts can easily be instrumentalized in the service of fascism. Trickbox of Memory interrupts the "expected" to throw history into disarray by focusing on the subtlety of how power relations are enacted and contested in reference to the past, assembling a transnational constellation of scholars and practitioners who offer new tricks for working critically with disorderly pasts"--From publisher's description.
Notes: Location of publisher obtained from publisher website.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Reaching into the trickbox of memory  -- Rosalie Metro & Felicitas Macgilchrist; title: Ruins  -- Heidi Grunebaum; title: Materiality  -- Alexandra Binnenkade & Felicitas Macgilchrist; title: Innocence  -- Lisa Farley; title: Responsibility  -- Matthew Howard; title: Bodies  -- Rosalie Metro; title: History  -- Alexandra Oeser; title: Questions  -- Elizabeth Anderson Worden -- Conclusion.; title: Packing up the box of tricks -- Rosalie Metro & Felicitas Macgilchrist.