Beskrivelse
This presentation looks at political images as tools for social action and (re)construction of collective memory in the context of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. More specifically I will discuss the act of creative destruction of protest symbols as an act of countering collective memory of certain events of the revolution. William J. T. Mitchell (2005) defines creative destruction as the act of attacking an image and what it represents through creating a secondary defaced or annihilated image of it. The work builds on Frederic Bartlett’s (1932) theoretical ideas on reconstructive remembering and serial reproductions and uses a sociocultural psychological approach to the social life of images in public space. This approach explores images in the public space as sequences in a transformative political dialogue between different social actors in everyday life. I will look at Egyptian activists and authorities as they produced images to propagate particular versions of social reality and how those images were interpreted, transformed, and creatively destructed in a continuous process of negotiating the collective memory of the revolution.Periode | 2022 |
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Begivenhedstitel | Memory Studies Association - Nordic Conference |
Begivenhedstype | Konference |
Placering | Reykjavik, IslandVis på kort |