Archive That, Comrade!

Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance

Nonfiction, History, Reference, Study & Teaching, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory
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Author: Phil Cohen ISBN: 9781629635316
Publisher: PM Press Publication: March 26, 2018
Imprint: PM Press Language: English
Author: Phil Cohen
ISBN: 9781629635316
Publisher: PM Press
Publication: March 26, 2018
Imprint: PM Press
Language: English

After a brief introduction that sets the contemporary scene of "archive fever," this book considers the political legacy of 1960s counterculture for what it reveals about the process of commemoration. How far can the archive serve as a platform for dialogue and debate between different generations of activists in a culture that fetishizes the evanescent present, practices a profound amnesia about its counterfactual past, and forecloses the sociological imagination of an alternative future? Can the Left establish its own autonomous model of commemoration?

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After a brief introduction that sets the contemporary scene of "archive fever," this book considers the political legacy of 1960s counterculture for what it reveals about the process of commemoration. How far can the archive serve as a platform for dialogue and debate between different generations of activists in a culture that fetishizes the evanescent present, practices a profound amnesia about its counterfactual past, and forecloses the sociological imagination of an alternative future? Can the Left establish its own autonomous model of commemoration?

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