Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition
New York; London: Routledge (2018), xii, 313 pp.
Contains illustrations
ISBN 978-1-317-26742-3 (pdf); 978-1-138-63938-6 (pbk)
"Digital media, networks and archives reimagine and revitalize individual, social and cultural memory but they also ensnare it, bringing it under new forms of control. Understanding these paradoxical conditions of remembering and forgetting through today’s technologies needs bold interdisciplinary interventions. Digital Memory Studies seizes this challenge and pioneers an agenda that interrogates concepts, theories and histories of media and memory studies, to map a holistic vision for the study of the digital remaking of memory. Through the lenses of connectivity, archaeology, economy, and archive, contributors illuminate the uses and abuses of the digital past via an array of media and topics, including television, videogames and social media, and memory institutions, network politics and the digital afterlife." (Publisher description)
1 The restless past: an introduction to digital memory and media / Andrew Hoskins, 1
I. CONNECTIVITY
2 Culture of the past: digital connectivity and dispotentiated futures / Martin Pogacar, 27
3 The media end: digital afterlife agencies and techno-existential closure / Amanda Lagerkvist, 48
4 Memory of the multitude: the end of collective memory / Andrew Hoskins, 85
5 The Holocaust in the 21st century: digital anxiety, transnational cosmopolitanism, and never again genocide without memory / Wulf Kansteiner, 110
II. ARCHAEOLOGY
6 Tempor(e)alities and archive-textures of media-connected memory / Wolfgang Ernst, 143
7 The underpinning time: from digital memory to network microtemporality / Jussi Parikka, 156
8 Television in and out of time / Timothy Barker, 173
9 Memory in technoscience: biomedia and the wettability of mnemonic relations / Matthew Allen, 190
III. ECONOMY
10 Iconomy of memory: on remembering as digital, civic and corporate currency / Joanne Garde-Hansen and Gilson Schwartz, 217
11 Globital memory capital: theorizing digital memory economies / Anna Reading and Tanya Notley, 234
IV. ARCHIVE
12 Memory institutions, the archive and digital disruption? / Michael Moss, 253
13 Tensions in the interface: the archive and the digital / Debra Ramsay, 280
I. CONNECTIVITY
2 Culture of the past: digital connectivity and dispotentiated futures / Martin Pogacar, 27
3 The media end: digital afterlife agencies and techno-existential closure / Amanda Lagerkvist, 48
4 Memory of the multitude: the end of collective memory / Andrew Hoskins, 85
5 The Holocaust in the 21st century: digital anxiety, transnational cosmopolitanism, and never again genocide without memory / Wulf Kansteiner, 110
II. ARCHAEOLOGY
6 Tempor(e)alities and archive-textures of media-connected memory / Wolfgang Ernst, 143
7 The underpinning time: from digital memory to network microtemporality / Jussi Parikka, 156
8 Television in and out of time / Timothy Barker, 173
9 Memory in technoscience: biomedia and the wettability of mnemonic relations / Matthew Allen, 190
III. ECONOMY
10 Iconomy of memory: on remembering as digital, civic and corporate currency / Joanne Garde-Hansen and Gilson Schwartz, 217
11 Globital memory capital: theorizing digital memory economies / Anna Reading and Tanya Notley, 234
IV. ARCHIVE
12 Memory institutions, the archive and digital disruption? / Michael Moss, 253
13 Tensions in the interface: the archive and the digital / Debra Ramsay, 280
