21F.013 Out of Ground Zero: Catastrophe and Memory, Fall 2002

21F.013 Out of Ground Zero: Catastrophe and Memory, Fall 2002

Subject offers a cross-cultural and trans-historical perspective on the problems of catastrophe and the process of memorializing. It asks what media and various art forms can offer to the project of collective memory. It engages key texts on the notion of "ground zero" in the urban culture...

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Main Author: Scribner, Charity
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics
Format: Learning Object
Language:en-US
Published: 2002
Subjects:
World Trade Center
September 11
memorial
discourse
media
art
collective memory
Germany
Japan
global commerce
transportation
systems
surveillance
non-Western cultures
oppositional political formations
Robert Musil
Maurice Halbwachs
Shusaku Arakawa
Michael Hogan
Ariella Azoulay
Chomsky
Freud
Edward Said
Memory > Social aspects
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36337

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