
Forgetting
Sina Najafi(Editor)
Cabinet (Publisher)
Published on 30. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
114 pages
978-1-932698-41-1 (ISBN)
Description
Across fields as disparate as historiography, psychiatry and anthropology, remembering was long considered primary and forgetting simply a malfunction of recall. But after figures such as Nietzsche and Freud, the act of forgetting has undergone a wholesale reevaluation; for many modern thinkers, active forgetting is the precondition for living. Cabinet issue 42 features Jennifer J. Almontez on Greek orators' mnemonic system of creating vast "memory palaces"; Chip Chapman on forgetting and the creation of national myths; Sophia Hall on animal memory and obedience training methods; an interview with Jean-Yves Le Naour on the story of Anthelme Mangin, France's best-known WWI amnesiac; and a portfolio featuring artist-designed monuments to forgetting. Elsewhere in the issue: Brigid Doherty on British analyst Wilfred Bion's notation for the unknown; Allen S. Weiss on the dance macabre; Erica Owen on the relationship between nineteenth-century racial theories and the creation of the modern valuation system for "precious" and "semi-precious" stones; and much more.
More details
Series
42
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
Illustrations, color; Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-932698-41-1 (9781932698411)
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