Media Archaeologies, Micro-Archives and Storytelling

Media Archaeologies, Micro-Archives and Storytelling Re-presencing the Past

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Media Archaeologies, Micro-Archives and Storytelling Re-presencing the Past

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Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

Media Archaeologies, Micro-Archives and Storytelling

Re-presencing the Past

Martin Pogačar

Social Science / Media Studies

This book argues that today we live in the culture of the past that delimits our world and configures our potentialities. It explores how the past invades our presents and investigates the affective uses of the past in the increasingly elusive present. Remembering and forgetting are part of everyday life, popular culture, politics, ideologies and mythologies. In the time of the ubiquitous digital media, the ways individuals and collectivities re-presence their pasts and how they think about the present and the future have undergone significant changes.  The book focuses on affective micro-archives of the memories of the socialist Yugoslavia and investigates their construction as part of the media archaeological practices. The author further argues that these affective practices present a way to reassemble the historical and relegitimize individual biographies which disintegrated along with the country in 1991. 

Martin Pogačar is a researcher at the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia. His research focuses on the intersections of media and memory studies, post-socialist Yugoslavia and nostalgia, digital memorials, archives, and media archaeology. His recent publications include ‘Digital Afterlife: Ex-Yugoslav Pop Culture Icons and Social Media’, in Post-Yugoslav Constellations, Vlad Beronja and Stijn Vervaet (eds.), 2016; ‘Digital heritage: co-historicity and the multicultural heritage of former Yugoslavia’ (Two Homelands: migration studies 39(2), 2014). 


Publication Date: 12 September 2016
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 9781137525796
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 233

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