Miscellany: The Arab Archive. Mediated Memories and Digital Flows
Abstract
As the revolutions across the Arab world that came to a head in 2011 devolved into civil war and military coup, representation and history acquired a renewed and contested urgency. The capacities of the internet have enabled sharing and archiving in an unprecedented fashion. Yet, at the same time, these facilities institute a globally dispersed reinforcement and recalibration of power, turning memory and knowledge into commodified and copyrighted goods. In The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows, activists, artists, filmmakers, producers, and scholars examine which images of struggle have been created, bought, sold, repurposed, denounced, and expunged. As a whole, these cultural productions constitute an archive whose formats are as diverse as digital repositories looked after by activists, found footage art documentaries, Facebook archive pages, art exhibits, doctoral research projects, and ‘controversial’ or ‘violent’ protest videos that are abruptly removed from YouTube at the click of a mouse by sub-contracted employees thousands of kilometers from where they were uploaded. The Arab Archive investigates the local, regional, and international forces that determine what materials, and therefore which pasts, we can access and remember, and, conversely, which pasts get erased and forgotten.
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Della Ratta, Donatella; Dickinson, Kay; Haugbolle, Sune(Hg.): The Arab Archive. Mediated Memories and Digital Flows. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures 2020. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19255.
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year = 2020,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19255}",
editor = {Della Ratta, Donatella and Dickinson, Kay and Haugbolle, Sune},
volume = 35,
address = {Amsterdam},
series = {Theory on Demand},
publisher = {Institute of Network Cultures},
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title = {The Arab Archive. Mediated Memories and Digital Flows},
year = 2020,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19255}",
editor = {Della Ratta, Donatella and Dickinson, Kay and Haugbolle, Sune},
volume = 35,
address = {Amsterdam},
series = {Theory on Demand},
publisher = {Institute of Network Cultures},
isbn = {9789492302557},
}
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