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The Memory of the Modern (Hardcover, New)
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The Memory of the Modern (Hardcover, New)
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Memory has a history. The Classical world ordered and valued events
differently than the Medieval world; which, in turn, was replaced
by "the memory" of the Renaissance. Matt Matsuda's compelling,
multidisciplinary argument in The Memory of the Modern is that the
understanding, value, and uses of memory changed yet again at the
end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries,
becoming distinctively "modern". Matsuda proves his argument by
visiting a remarkable array of "memory-sites": the destruction of a
monument to Napoleon during the 1871 Paris Commune; the frantic
selling of futures on the Paris stock-exchange; the state's
forensic search for a vagabond rapist and murderer; a child's
perjured testimony on the witness stand; a scientist's dissecting
of the human brain; the invention of cameras and the cinema. Each
chapter studies a distinct moment when new representations of the
past were forged, contested, and put to cultural and ideological
use. And all these diverse events cohere as Matsuda repeatedly
shows which "memories" were celebrated and which forgotten, which
traditions invented and appropriated and which discarded. More
importantly, he explains why, and in doing so answers the broader
question, Who controls what is remembered and who is believed?
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