Aesthetic Autonomy after Adorno

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Doing Memory Studies with Ann Rigney 1
5. 1 History, Narrative, Memory
6. History, Memory, and Historical Theory: Five Ideas for Good Memory Management 17
7. Stories We Remember By: Narrativity and Memory-Making 23
8. Narratives at my Doorstep: Researching Memory as an “Improper Historian” 31
9. The Nation Facing Its Memories 41
10. Orating Prememory from the Dock 47
11. Divided Narratives and the Crisis of National Solidarity 53
12. 2 The Dynamics of Memory
13. Memory in Motion: The Dynamic Turn 61
14. The Dynamics of Postmemory 67
15. The Political Economy of Memory 73
16. Digging Up Mnemonic Fossils 77
17. Flashbulb Memories as Sites for Collective Memories 85
18. Eccentric Agency: Women ‘Remembering’ Chattel Slavery 91
19. Transmutations of an Argentine Site of Traumatic Memory 97
20. Citrus: An Experiment in Memory Work 103
21. 3 Mediation and Remediation
22. Mediation and Prosthetic Memory 113
23. The Platformization of Scholarly Legacy 117
24. Memory and Platformization 123
25. Memory and Artificial Intelligence 129
26. Cultural Memory and Cultural Analytics 135
27. The Media Amnesia of Capital Accumulation 141
28. 4 Life and Afterlives of Memory
29. Afterlives of Literature: Five Lessons from Odyssean Mnemohistory 149
30. The Afterlives of a National Apology: From Reconciliation to Self-Determination 157
31. The Cultural Memory of Protest Slogans 163
32. Musical After/Lives: Cultural Remembrance and Distributed Creativity 171
33. Posthumanist Dreams of Imperfect Memories 179
34. How a Footnote Remembers 185
35. A Portable Fatherland: Afterlives of the St. George’s Night Uprising (1343) in Estonian Cultural Memory 191
36. 5 National and Transnational Memory
37. Transnational Memory Reconsidered 201
38. How (Post) Memory Matters to Justice 207
39. Flags, Hearts, and Stamps: The Transnational Memory of COVID-19 215
40. Remembering the Female Partisan: Sanja Iveković’s Transnational Memory Work 223
41. Articulation, Politics and the Aesthetic: Yeats’s Nobel Prize, 1923–2023 231
42. Memory Translation and Minor Transnationalism 237
43. 6 The Matter of Memory
44. Remembering Things: The Materiality of Memory and the Memory of Materials 245
45. Accidental Archives and Diffractive Reading: Gladys Mgudlandlu and the Resistant Periodical Memory Object 251
46. The Transcultural Mnemonic Agency of “Post-German” Things in Poland 259
47. Provocative Objects and the Remaking of Cultural Memory 267
48. Bones of Contention: Necrotoxicity in the Francoist Underworld 273
49. Ecologies of the Discarded: Cartographic Collage as Mnemonic Recovery 281
50. Who and What Matters in Literary Memory 289
51. 7 The Agency of the Aesthetic
52. Multidirectional Memory and the Agency of the Aesthetic 297
53. Scales of Memory: Family Chronicles and the Agency of the Aesthetic 305
54. Remembering Earth: Countering Planetary Amnesia through the Creative Arts 313
55. Post-Religious Memory and the Agency of the Aesthetic: ‘Small acts of repair’ in Lucas Rijneveld’s The Discomfort of Evening 319
56. Writing for the Birds: Early Irish Lyrics and the Unravelling of Cultural Memory 327
57. Affiliation and Mediation: Memory in Performance in An Old Song Half Forgotten by Deirdre Kinahan 333
58. Aesthetic Autonomy after Adorno 341
59. 8 The Memory-Activism Nexus
60. Memories, Social Movements and Activism from Below 349
61. “Activist Memory” and Trade Unionism ‘Splintering’ the Memory-Activism Nexus: State and Market Forces in the Vortex of Civic Memory 355
62. ‘Splintering’ the Memory-Activism Nexus: State and Market Forces in the Vortex of Civic Memory 361
63. Visual Memory of Protest in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence 369
64. Remembering Autism in the Memory-Activism Nexus 377
65. Monuments as Actants of Mnemonic Change 383
66. Activist Afterlives 389
67. Bibliography 393
68. The Authors 425
69. Index 435