Feminist temporalities: memory, ghosts, and the collapse of time

Kosmina, Brydie

doi:10.1080/10304312.2020.1842126

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“…. bear witness to the haunting of the present and to imagine a more just future’ (Kosmina, 2020: 907). Gordon et al (2020) calls this ‘other utopianism’, the ‘often illegible, illegitimate or trivialized forms of escape, resistance, opposition and alternative ways of life’ (p. 343), which echoes Nyong’o’s (2019) writing on fabulations as ‘the persistent reappearance of that which was never meant to appear, but was instead meant to be kept outside or below representation’ (p. 3).…”

Section: Spectral Fabulations – a Conceptual Explorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spectral fabulations: Belgrade drag performances refashioning socialist memories

Pope

2023

Memory Studies

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This article explores how drag performers in late postsocialist Belgrade refashion memories of socialist Yugoslavia, queering memory by disrupting the linear temporality of the postsocialist transition and challenging the erasure of the city’s socialist Yugoslav past. Belgrade is home to a thriving drag community, including a growing group of performers who engage with memories of socialist Yugoslavia, drawing on its diverse legacy from costumes, ideologies and cultural production. Analysing performance material from two of these drag identities – Gospođa Pereca and Novoslovenka – I argue that drag performers could be considered spectral fabulations, which emerge in the haunted landscape of postsocialist Belgrade, a city characterised by political depression, particularly for its LGBTQ+ community. Confronting literature on hauntings and queer performance, spectral fabulation sees drag identities in Belgrade as posthuman apparitions who use socialist memory to disrupt teleological understandings of history as well as to imagine utopian futures, which actively work against the conditions of political depression in the city. This ultimately points to the indeterminacy of the postsocialist transition, containing the potential form for both political depression and queer futurities.

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Section: Spectral Fabulations – a Conceptual Explorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spectral fabulations: Belgrade drag performances refashioning socialist memories

Pope

2023

Memory Studies

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“…Cogent narratives of causality have lost their luster and have been replaced with simulacra that combine both the past and the present into a single image. 89 Time is constantly manipulated in anime: the actions of characters or images are slowed in order to create an emotional resonance as a means of giving flat images an artificial sense of depth, resultantly creating a medium that is essentially atemporal. 90 By layering flat image over flat image, a false sense of depth and movement is constructed that, in turn, manipulates and alters the perception of time for the viewer.…”

Section: A Postmodern Possession and Sacrificial Crisismentioning

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“…In postmodernity, where the past bleeds continuously into the present, the Specter 's lack of temporality serves as a means of understanding the present and conceiving of a future. 112 This bleeds into another aspect of moe-kyara as non-human or supernatural moe-kyara have become increasingly common over the last two decades, particularly as neutral figures that could be good or harmful depending on circumstance. 113 By using the database nature of moe-kyara, who already existed as beings without narrative context and thereby already narratively divorced from time, their flat images are merged with the prosthetic body of the Specter and become an avatar for the trauma that the Specter represents.…”

Section: A Postmodern Possession and Sacrificial Crisismentioning

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“…120 The Specter offers an opportunity via its immateriality to point the way towards the negation of time and an ephemeral utopia. 121 Bakemonogatari uses its specters to point forever towards a future where justice exists, where the victimization of Senjougahara and Sengoku could not only be avenged, but also erased. However, this erasure and justice is always immanent-yet never arriving.…”

Section: A Postmodern Possession and Sacrificial Crisismentioning

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Haunted Psychologies

Greene

2021

JAMS

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The anime adaptation of the light novel franchise Bakemonogatari was released in 2009. The story revolves around the character Araragi Koyomi, a high school student in his senior year who encounters a powerful vampire during a school break and is transformed into a semi-supernatural being himself. However, this is not merely an example of a supernaturally-focused anime, but rather is a discussion on the impact of capitalism on the subjectivity of the individual. The narrative and experience of viewing Bakemonogatari is a commentary on the trauma of postmodernity and otaku consumption’s failure to remediate the objectification of consumer-capitalism. The series’ design and narrative choices is designed to attract otaku, to whose consumption these patterns are designed to appeal, and thereby give warning to otaku concerning the potential dangers posed by their approach towards media. The characters in this series are possessed by Specters who dredge up and yet simultaneously suppress this traumatic state of existence in a world without catharsis and without justice. Otaku, attracted to moe-kyara to escape the drudgery and misery of the three-dimensional world, are shown that this escape itself is a form of harm—like Araragi, they turn meaning into a form of self-flagellation and heap untold suffering on the moe-kyara towards which they are inextricably drawn.

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“…Derrida 6 presents the theory of Hauntology through a metaphorical 'spectre' or 'ghost'-a haunting presence of the past that hovers over the present as an invisible force that informs the present and prospective future. 15 This conceptual framework will analyse the 'ghosts of Ireland's past' and their presence today. Such a conceptual framework creates space for a critical analytic re-narrativisation and a telling of alternative stories 7 and to make visible how social, political, and economic policies impacted on women in addiction.…”

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Echoes from History: Women, Drug-use, and Cultural Shame

Lynch

2022

The Boolean

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Women who use drugs continue to be mostly overlooked in research or are depicted as promiscuous and licentious.31 The legacy of a patriarchal past and moralistic societal attitudes still features heavily on the pathways to recovery for women. This project will focus on the structural barriers faced by women in accessing supports for alcohol and/or drug use. The aim is to explore the potential harm caused to women due to the structural and often patriarchal barriers they experience in accessing supports. Historically, drug treatment and policies have emerged from knowledge produced by a ‘male-based society’, for what was perceived to be, predominantly a ‘male problem’.4, 34 Lorde17 asserts the ‘master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house’ thus male-based knowledge production will not serve women as well as it does men. The dominant culture has valued a punitive ideology of addiction that dismisses the needs of women who use drugs and fails to address the abuses perpetrated against them. Challenging this ideology, through viewing this as a feminist and human rights issue, will be the core argument within this project.

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Feminist temporalities: memory, ghosts, and the collapse of time

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Spectral fabulations: Belgrade drag performances refashioning socialist memories

Spectral fabulations: Belgrade drag performances refashioning socialist memories

Haunted Psychologies

Echoes from History: Women, Drug-use, and Cultural Shame

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