Ned Kelly as Memory Dispositif

Talking to the Small Tableau: Touring the Site of Mediatized Memory and Forgiveness in Bongha

“…Perhaps Roh, as in the other cases (cf. Basu, 2012; Rigney, 2012), can survive over the period by transforming its shape and territory. Alternatively, he can be entered into the oblivion in the near future, which would ultimately be the fulfillment of Moo-hyun Roh’s last wish.…”

“…For Deleuze, the dispositif is a method as well as a concept: “Untangling these lines within a social apparatus is, in each case, like drawing a map, doing cartography, surveying unknown landscapes, and this is what he [Foucault] calls ‘working on the ground’” (Deleuze, 1992, p. 159). Coined by Laura Basu (2012), memory-dispositif means an apparatus to impose “a constellation of heterogeneous (memory) elements within a system, and the relationships between them, which produce a particular ‘tendency’” (Basu, 2012, pp. 2-7).…”

“…This article will first attempt to demonstrate how the town was designed as a large scale of memory- dispositif (Basu, 2012) against Roh’s last will. In the landscape of Bongha, there were invisible, but notably present codes of remembering, which delineate certain performativity to the place’s visitors.…”

Las estatuas también mueren. Patrimonio, museos y memorias en el punto de mira de DAESH

“…Les statues meurent aussi también abordaba otro problema actual: la apropiación y reinterpretación de determinados monumentos como testimonios de una particular narrativa, un discurso colonialista acerca de la supuesta primacía de unos valores occidentales (civilización, progreso, laicidad) sobre el resto de sociedades, en este caso, África. Esta idea fue posteriormente desarrollada desde una perspectiva diferente por P. Nora, que acuñó la expresión "lieux de mémoire" para referirse a esos monumentos que actúan como dispositivos o repositorios que preservan una determinada memoria e identidad de una comunidad (étnica, religiosa, nacional, tribal o familiar), puestos generalmente al servicio de la construcción de discursos de corte colonialista, imperialista o nacionalista (Nora 1989;Basu 2012). El reciente incendio parcial de Notre-Dame y la ola de solidaridad internacional posterior ahonda en la concepción de la catedral gótica parisiense no solo como un monumento más del patrimonio francés o mundial, sino ante todo como un icono de la identidad francesa y la civilización occidental (Mora 2013).…”

News Satire: Giving the News a Memory

“…Paradoxically, this obsession comes from a fear of forgetting generated by the acceleration and information overload of late capitalism. Other research focuses on the 'meso' level of individual memory practices and their role in articulating identities and negotiating power relations (Olick and Robbins 1998, 122;Basu 2012;Bijl 2015;Erll 2011;Rigney 2017;De Cesari and Rigney 2014). Connections are not always made between the two levels.…”