MEMORY AND POWER: TWO MOVEMENTS

The institutions that work with the preservation and diffusion of cultural heritage - be them archive, libraries, museums, art galleries or cultural centres - present a certain discourse about reality. To understand this discourse, composed by sound and silence, by fullness and emptiness, by presenc...

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Autor principal: Chagas, Mário De Souza; Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
Lenguaje:Portugués
Publicado: Edições Universitárias Lusófonas 2009
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/cadernosociomuseologia/article/view/447
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=pt/pt-003&d=article447oai
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description The institutions that work with the preservation and diffusion of cultural heritage - be them archive, libraries, museums, art galleries or cultural centres - present a certain discourse about reality. To understand this discourse, composed by sound and silence, by fullness and emptiness, by presence and absence, by remembrance and forgetting, an operation is implied, not only with the enunciation of speech and its gaps, but also the comprehension of that which causes to speak, of who is speaking and of the point whence one speaks. Preservation and destruction, or, in another way, conservation and loss, walk hand in hand in the arteries of life. As suggested by Nietzsche (1999, p.273), it is impossible to live without loss, it is entirely impossible to live avoiding destruction to play its game and drive the dynamics of life on.However, by means of a kind of tautological argument, one often justifies preservation by the imminence of loss and memory by the threat of forgetting. Thus, one ceases to consider that the game and the rules of the game between forgetting and memory are not fed by themselves and that preservation and destruction are not opposed in a deadly duel, but instead they complement one another and are always at the service of subjects that build themselves and are built through social practices. To indicate that memories and forgettings can be sown and cultivated corroborates the importance of working towards the denaturalisation of these concepts and towards the understanding that they result from a construction process also involving other forces, such as: power. Power is a sower, a promoter of memories and forgettings.
author Chagas, Mário De Souza; Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
spellingShingle Chagas, Mário De Souza; Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
MEMORY AND POWER: TWO MOVEMENTS
author_facet Chagas, Mário De Souza; Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
author_sort Chagas, Mário De Souza; Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
title MEMORY AND POWER: TWO MOVEMENTS
title_short MEMORY AND POWER: TWO MOVEMENTS
title_full MEMORY AND POWER: TWO MOVEMENTS
title_fullStr MEMORY AND POWER: TWO MOVEMENTS
title_full_unstemmed MEMORY AND POWER: TWO MOVEMENTS
title_sort memory and power: two movements
publisher Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
publishDate 2009
url http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/cadernosociomuseologia/article/view/447
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