Skulls, Tree Bark, Fossils
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15310682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magdalena Zolkos (0000-0003-3728-5268, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 249-291 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qui Parle (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-8385 • E-ISSN: 1938-8020 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10418385-9395279 |
| OpenAlex | W4200032748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 61 |
Studies of material objects in the field of memory studies have followed diverse epistemological and disciplinary trajectories, but their shared characteristic has been the questioning of philosophical assumptions concerning human relations with inanimate things and lower-level organic objects, such as plants, within the Aristotelian hierarchy of beings. Rather than accept at face value their categorizations as passive or deficient in comparison to the human subject, critical scholarship has reformulated the place and role of nonhuman entities in culture. This essay examines the nexus of materiality and memory in the work of the French philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman, with the focus on the questions of mnemonic affordance of things and plants. The essay proposes that Didi-Huberman’s project can be approached from the perspective of “undoing” the key binaries of Western historiography of art and material culture: surface/depth, exteriority/interiority, visibility/invisibility, and malleability/rigidity. Focusing on imaginal representations of memory objects in Didi-Huberman’s two essays Bark and Being a Skull, the essay situates these texts within the context of his philosophical reading of Aby Warburg’s iconology, and argues that Didi-Huberman’s undoing of the binaries that have traditionally structured thinking about materiality and memory could be productively approached as a philosophical project of transvaluating surface
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Materiality (auditing · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Temporalities · Undoing · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
Memory in Culture
Memory and Material Culture
Life and Death in Psychoanalysis
Trauma, Culture, and Metaphor
Teleological Causation
Cultural Memory and Early Civilization
Radical Botany
Communicative and Cultural Memory
Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science
Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity
Cinematic Intermedialities and Contemporary Holocaust Memory
Russian Modernism
Space and the Memories of Violence
Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory
The language of psychoanalysis
The Didi-Huberman Dictionary
Being Alive
"Krajobraz po Zagładzie. Pastoralne dystopie i wizje "terracydu
The objects that lived
Ontology of the accident
Jak drzewa świadczą? W stronę nie-ludzkich figuracji świadka
Images Thinking the Political
Dialektik des Monstrums
Images and Symptoms
Shelf Lives
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities
The Environmental History of the Holocaust
The Rise of Hermeneutics and the Crisis of Ocularcentrism
The Readability of Images (And) of History
Testimonial Objects
Phasmid Thinking
Image, Language
Artistic Survival
Images in spite of all
Vibrant Matter
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |