Les mémoires d’une automobile (pas) comme les autres. La Coccinelle VW et ses mises en histoire
This article aims at providing a sociological account of a bulk of heterogeneous materials including narratives of the history of the famous car from Volkswagen, ‘The Beetle’. In order to do that, it proposes a typology of the ways these historical narratives are socially organized through so-called...
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| description | This article aims at providing a sociological account of a bulk of heterogeneous materials including narratives of the history of the famous car from Volkswagen, ‘The Beetle’. In order to do that, it proposes a typology of the ways these historical narratives are socially organized through so-called memorial channels. These are conceived as made of several components : specific devices for the historical accounting of the Beetle’s past, particular modes by which this car became an object-of-a-certain-practice, distinct versions of its nature and genealogy. The article then details four memorial channels by which the Beetle is given a history : a hagiographic channel, in which it becomes an object of passion, being unique in the automotive history ; an academic channel, in which it is seized as an object of research calling for epistemologically founded interpretations ; a political channel, in which the Beetle calls for moral judgments on the part of culturally situated individuals ; an iconic channel, transforming it in a semiotic object feeding aesthetic interpretations. The never-ending social practices which make these channels active give to the VW Beetle its mythic stuff and its peculiar place in the cultural landscape of Western societies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d1f47ff849454039b56d060608566e842022-12-22T02:42:15ZdeuConserveries MémoriellesConserveries Mémorielles1718-55562015-06-0117Les mémoires d’une automobile (pas) comme les autres. La Coccinelle VW et ses mises en histoirePierre LANNOYThis article aims at providing a sociological account of a bulk of heterogeneous materials including narratives of the history of the famous car from Volkswagen, ‘The Beetle’. In order to do that, it proposes a typology of the ways these historical narratives are socially organized through so-called memorial channels. These are conceived as made of several components : specific devices for the historical accounting of the Beetle’s past, particular modes by which this car became an object-of-a-certain-practice, distinct versions of its nature and genealogy. The article then details four memorial channels by which the Beetle is given a history : a hagiographic channel, in which it becomes an object of passion, being unique in the automotive history ; an academic channel, in which it is seized as an object of research calling for epistemologically founded interpretations ; a political channel, in which the Beetle calls for moral judgments on the part of culturally situated individuals ; an iconic channel, transforming it in a semiotic object feeding aesthetic interpretations. The never-ending social practices which make these channels active give to the VW Beetle its mythic stuff and its peculiar place in the cultural landscape of Western societies.http://journals.openedition.org/cm/2136motorcarVolkswagenPorschememoryhistorypassion |
| spellingShingle | Pierre LANNOY Les mémoires d’une automobile (pas) comme les autres. La Coccinelle VW et ses mises en histoire Conserveries Mémorielles motorcar Volkswagen Porsche memory history passion |
| title | Les mémoires d’une automobile (pas) comme les autres. La Coccinelle VW et ses mises en histoire |
| title_full | Les mémoires d’une automobile (pas) comme les autres. La Coccinelle VW et ses mises en histoire |
| title_fullStr | Les mémoires d’une automobile (pas) comme les autres. La Coccinelle VW et ses mises en histoire |
| title_full_unstemmed | Les mémoires d’une automobile (pas) comme les autres. La Coccinelle VW et ses mises en histoire |
| title_short | Les mémoires d’une automobile (pas) comme les autres. La Coccinelle VW et ses mises en histoire |
| title_sort | les memoires d une automobile pas comme les autres la coccinelle vw et ses mises en histoire |
| topic | motorcar Volkswagen Porsche memory history passion |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/cm/2136 |
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