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Connexions Other Voices - December 17, 2017 - Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
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http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2928.htm
Publisher: Connexions
Date Written: 17/12/2017
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
From Canada to Palestine, from South Sudan to Burma, people are working to document their stories and bring them to the attention of the world.
Abstract: The December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, focuses on Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia.
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That’s the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
Certainly this applies to commodities, which, as Marx taught us, are both the incarnation of va...
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