Memory and materiality

Schlunke, K

Memory and materiality

Schlunke, K

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Memory Studies, 2013, 6 (3), pp. 253 - 261
Issue Date:: 2013-07-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Schlunke, K	en_US
dc.date.issued	2013-07-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Memory Studies, 2013, 6 (3), pp. 253 - 261	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1750-6980	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/27788
dc.description.abstract	This article explores the idea of memory effects, that is, memory and materiality as intertwined producers of something we can call memory effects. This article argues that memory is an 'effect' produced through and with materiality, rather than something only produced by a human-centred consciousness. Through an exploration of the scale of memory in the shapes of a tiny Captain Cook painted on a matchbox and a giant Captain Cook, which stands as 'Big Cook' in Cairns in northern Queensland (Australia), new paths of perception and connection that may better account for the circulations and translations of memory are established. To think of memory as having a scale is to see memory as always simultaneously physical and temporal. These are memory effects. To think memory as memory effects is to give memory a key place not just in orders of concatenating events that we may over-determine as 'national' but as an order of perception given to us by the things themselves. © The Author(s) 2013.	en_US
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0558978
dc.relation.ispartof	Memory Studies	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1750698013482864	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Sociology	en_US
dc.title	Memory and materiality	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	3	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	6	en_US
utslib.for	2002 Cultural Studies	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Cultural Studies Program
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.issue	3	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	6	en_US

Abstract:

This article explores the idea of memory effects, that is, memory and materiality as intertwined producers of something we can call memory effects. This article argues that memory is an 'effect' produced through and with materiality, rather than something only produced by a human-centred consciousness. Through an exploration of the scale of memory in the shapes of a tiny Captain Cook painted on a matchbox and a giant Captain Cook, which stands as 'Big Cook' in Cairns in northern Queensland (Australia), new paths of perception and connection that may better account for the circulations and translations of memory are established. To think of memory as having a scale is to see memory as always simultaneously physical and temporal. These are memory effects. To think memory as memory effects is to give memory a key place not just in orders of concatenating events that we may over-determine as 'national' but as an order of perception given to us by the things themselves. © The Author(s) 2013.

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