Silvana Mandolessi
Biographic Data
| ID | 270777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvana Mandolessi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvana |
| FAMILY NAME | Mandolessi |
| SIGNATURE | MANDOLESSI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1624-9655 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Handling the hype: Demystifying artificial intelligence for memory studies
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has reached memory studies in earnest. This partly reflects the hype around recent developments in generative AI (genAI), machine learning, and large language models (LLMs). But how can memory studies scholars handle this hype? Focusing on genAI applications, in particular so-called ‘chatbots’ (transformer-based instruction-tuned text generators), this commentary highlights five areas of critique that can help memory …
The digital turn in memory studies
This article examines the changes experienced by collective memory in the digital era. Contrary to the thesis that digital memory entails a new type of memory, which is radically different from the traditional conceptualization, I argue that the practice of digital memory materializes and implements the theoretical claims made by Memory Studies since the field’s inception – collective memory conceived as a process, mediated and remediated by mult…
Disappearances in Mexico
Introduction: Affective Arrangements and Violence in Latin America
This introductory article sets out to review the applicability and productivity of affect as a high-impact concept in the humanities. With a particular focus on a cultural studies perspective, it evaluates the different strands in affect theory and surveys the most recent approaches in the field. The authors argue for adopting a relational approach, focusing on specific formations or “affective arrangements”, which considers affect as a site of c…
On how to remember: Bordando por la paz and Memorial a las víctimas de la violencia: The struggle for memory in Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’
In this article, we contrast the state sponsored memory site Memorial a las Víctimas de la Violencia en México and the citizen memorial performed by the Iniciativa Bordando por la paz y la memoria: una víctima, un pañuelo on 1st December 2012. We argue that whereas the Memorial’s solidity, permanence and strength embody the federal government’s insistence in denying the state’s responsibility for human right abuses perpetrated within the framewor…
Twitter as a Mnemonic Medium from an Ecological Perspective: Ayotzinapa and the Memory of Tlatelolco in Mexico
This article examines how the link between two tragic events in Mexican history—the 2014 attack on students from the Ayotzinapa Teachers’ College and the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre—has been represented and performed on Twitter, pursuing two interlinked objectives. The first goal is to explore the memorialization of the Tlatelolco massacre in relation to the Ayotzinapa case within a corpus of 16,706 tweets, showing how this memorialization has broug…
Challenging the placeless imaginary in digital memories: The performation of place in the work of Forensic Architecture
This article discusses the imaginary that digital memories are ‘placeless’, which refers to the notion that, among the changes that memory has experienced under the impact of digital media, one is the loss of a significant link to place. I contend that digital memories are not placeless memories, but, on the contrary, that place is central for digital memory work. Drawing on the concept of ‘performation’, I seek to demonstrate how place is create…
Formas de (des)afección: Dos veces junio de Martín Kohan
Este artículo analiza la novela Dos veces junio (2002) de Martín Kohan desde la teoría de los afectos. El narrador de Dos veces junio se caracteriza por la ausencia, la suspensión, la vacilación o la supresión de afectos. Asumiendo que las respuestas afectivas corresponden necesariamente al momento histórico y a la esfera de la cual emergen, el artículo explora esta desafección como un componente esencial del funcionamiento del régimen autoritari…
Transnational Memories and the Practices of Global Justice in the Ayotzinapa Case
sponsorship: The research leading to this publication has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (“Digital Memories”, Grant agreement n° 677955) (European Research Council|677955)
Gombrowicz and the Monster
It is no coincidence that, together with his best- known novel—Ferdydurke— which placed him as one of the most important Polish Modernism writers, Witold Gombrowicz, around the same period, became involved in the writing of a gothic novel: Opętani (Possessed; or, The secret of Myslotch). Under the pseudonym Z. Niewieski, Gombrowicz serialized Possessed in two Polish daily newspapers from June 6 to August 30, 1939. The German attack on Poland inte…
The Disappeared as a Transnational Figure or How to Deal with the Vain Yesterday
This article examines the figure of the desaparecido as a transnational symbol, focusing on the ‘success’ this figure has had in the contemporary debate about memory in Spain. Taken from the repressive context of the dictatorships of the 1970s in South America, the disappeared have travelled to the Spain of the twenty-first century, where they are progressively replacing the former ‘fusilados y paseados’ of the Franco Regime. After charting the w…
The digital turn in memory studies
This article examines the changes experienced by collective memory in the digital era. Contrary to the thesis that digital memory entails a new type of memory, which is radically different from the traditional conceptualization, I argue that the practice of digital memory materializes and implements the theoretical claims made by Memory Studies since the field’s inception – collective memory conceived as a process, mediated and remediated by mult…
Challenging the placeless imaginary in digital memories: The performation of place in the work of Forensic Architecture
This article discusses the imaginary that digital memories are ‘placeless’, which refers to the notion that, among the changes that memory has experienced under the impact of digital media, one is the loss of a significant link to place. I contend that digital memories are not placeless memories, but, on the contrary, that place is central for digital memory work. Drawing on the concept of ‘performation’, I seek to demonstrate how place is create…
The Disappeared as a Transnational Figure or How to Deal with the Vain Yesterday
This article examines the figure of the desaparecido as a transnational symbol, focusing on the ‘success’ this figure has had in the contemporary debate about memory in Spain. Taken from the repressive context of the dictatorships of the 1970s in South America, the disappeared have travelled to the Spain of the twenty-first century, where they are progressively replacing the former ‘fusilados y paseados’ of the Franco Regime. After charting the w…
The Disappeared as a Transnational Figure or How to Deal with the Vain Yesterday
This article examines the figure of the desaparecido as a transnational symbol, focusing on the ‘success’ this figure has had in the contemporary debate about memory in Spain. Taken from the repressive context of the dictatorships of the 1970s in South America, the disappeared have travelled to the Spain of the twenty-first century, where they are progressively replacing the former ‘fusilados y paseados’ of the Franco Regime. After charting the w…
Gombrowicz and the Monster
It is no coincidence that, together with his best- known novel—Ferdydurke— which placed him as one of the most important Polish Modernism writers, Witold Gombrowicz, around the same period, became involved in the writing of a gothic novel: Opętani (Possessed; or, The secret of Myslotch). Under the pseudonym Z. Niewieski, Gombrowicz serialized Possessed in two Polish daily newspapers from June 6 to August 30, 1939. The German attack on Poland inte…
Formas de (des)afección: Dos veces junio de Martín Kohan
Este artículo analiza la novela Dos veces junio (2002) de Martín Kohan desde la teoría de los afectos. El narrador de Dos veces junio se caracteriza por la ausencia, la suspensión, la vacilación o la supresión de afectos. Asumiendo que las respuestas afectivas corresponden necesariamente al momento histórico y a la esfera de la cual emergen, el artículo explora esta desafección como un componente esencial del funcionamiento del régimen autoritari…
Transnational Memories and the Practices of Global Justice in the Ayotzinapa Case
sponsorship: The research leading to this publication has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (“Digital Memories”, Grant agreement n° 677955) (European Research Council|677955)
On how to remember: Bordando por la paz and Memorial a las víctimas de la violencia: The struggle for memory in Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’
In this article, we contrast the state sponsored memory site Memorial a las Víctimas de la Violencia en México and the citizen memorial performed by the Iniciativa Bordando por la paz y la memoria: una víctima, un pañuelo on 1st December 2012. We argue that whereas the Memorial’s solidity, permanence and strength embody the federal government’s insistence in denying the state’s responsibility for human right abuses perpetrated within the framewor…
Twitter as a Mnemonic Medium from an Ecological Perspective: Ayotzinapa and the Memory of Tlatelolco in Mexico
This article examines how the link between two tragic events in Mexican history—the 2014 attack on students from the Ayotzinapa Teachers’ College and the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre—has been represented and performed on Twitter, pursuing two interlinked objectives. The first goal is to explore the memorialization of the Tlatelolco massacre in relation to the Ayotzinapa case within a corpus of 16,706 tweets, showing how this memorialization has broug…
Challenging the placeless imaginary in digital memories: The performation of place in the work of Forensic Architecture
This article discusses the imaginary that digital memories are ‘placeless’, which refers to the notion that, among the changes that memory has experienced under the impact of digital media, one is the loss of a significant link to place. I contend that digital memories are not placeless memories, but, on the contrary, that place is central for digital memory work. Drawing on the concept of ‘performation’, I seek to demonstrate how place is create…
Disappearances in Mexico
Introduction: Affective Arrangements and Violence in Latin America
This introductory article sets out to review the applicability and productivity of affect as a high-impact concept in the humanities. With a particular focus on a cultural studies perspective, it evaluates the different strands in affect theory and surveys the most recent approaches in the field. The authors argue for adopting a relational approach, focusing on specific formations or “affective arrangements”, which considers affect as a site of c…
The digital turn in memory studies
This article examines the changes experienced by collective memory in the digital era. Contrary to the thesis that digital memory entails a new type of memory, which is radically different from the traditional conceptualization, I argue that the practice of digital memory materializes and implements the theoretical claims made by Memory Studies since the field’s inception – collective memory conceived as a process, mediated and remediated by mult…
Handling the hype: Demystifying artificial intelligence for memory studies
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has reached memory studies in earnest. This partly reflects the hype around recent developments in generative AI (genAI), machine learning, and large language models (LLMs). But how can memory studies scholars handle this hype? Focusing on genAI applications, in particular so-called ‘chatbots’ (transformer-based instruction-tuned text generators), this commentary highlights five areas of critique that can help memory …
Art (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (4 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works)