New Memory: Mediating history
New Memory: Mediating history
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新记忆：调解历史
DOI：
10.1080/01439680120075473
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2001
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A. Hoskins
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作者：
A. Hoskins
现代社会非常重视记忆力。我们与过去的关系——对过去的一些评判、庆祝、纪念或否认——从未如此成为公共文化的一部分。建立这种关系是“集体记忆”[1]的功能。针对遗产/博物馆产业的复兴、影响我们记忆方式的技术、政治和文化转变，以及最近诺曼·芬克尔斯坦（Norman Finkelstein）所称的“大屠杀产业”（Holocaust industry）的兴起，出现了一种新的关于记忆的批判性话语。正是这个话语，让我在今天媒体饱和的环境中思考记忆的状态——“新记忆”。与此同时，社会转向他们的过去，试图改变他们自己和他人对现在集体的看法，他们也转向过去，试图在现代生活中典型的碎片化经验中找到某种锚。为了分享集体过去的经验，历史评论家们探索了不同的方式。例如，雅克·勒·戈夫认为，
There is a premium put on memory in modern societies. Never before has our relationship with the past—some judgement of it, celebration, commemoration or denial of it—been so much part of public culture. Establishing this relationship is the function of ‘collective memory’ [1]. A new critical discourse on memory has emerged in response to the renaissance of the heritage/museum industry, the technological, political and cultural shifts affecting how we remember, and, latterly, the rise of what Norman Finkelstein has termed the ‘Holocaust Industry’ [2]. It is this discourse that informs my consideration of the state of memory—of ‘new memory’—in today’s media-saturated environment. At the same time that societies turn on their past in an attempt to alter their own and others’ perception of the collective in the present, they also turn to the past, in an attempt to nd some kind of anchor in the characteristically fragmented experience of modern life. Different ways are explored by historical commentators in a move to share in the experience of a collective past. Jacques Le Goff, for example, argues,