The aesthetics of memory

Ruins, visibility and witnessing

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3387367
AutoresMargarita Palacios (0000-0002-6458-9745, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen67
Número3
Páginas602-620
Fecha de publicación2019-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038026118818832
OpenAlexW2906363082
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas16

This article presents the findings of research regarding the transformation of the meaning of ex-detention and extermination sites in Chile. In the context of the increasing cost of land and the 'urban cleansing' associated with global processes of neoliberalization, the author reflects in particular upon the dynamics of visibility and erasure that accompany the life of these recent ruins, and the various politics of their memorialization. From a critical phenomenological perspective the author argues that ruins of sites of violence have the capacity to interrupt, transgress and even contradict narratives about them; furthermore, the relation between affect, ethics and aesthetics is discussed so as to raise questions about the possibility of witnessing and the challenges of memorialization

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Memorialization · Narrative · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Relation (database) · Sociology · The Holocaust · Visibility · Visual arts · History · Law · Memory, violence, and history · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Political Theology and Sovereignty