Political Terror and the Technologies of Memory: Excuse, Sacrifice, Commodification, and Actuarial Moralities

Radical History Review

Volumn 2003, Issue 85, 2003, Pages 58-73

  Feldman, Allen ^a  

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EID: 85135212196     PISSN: 01636545     EISSN: 15341453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01636545-2003-85-58     Document Type: Note

References (11)

1. Paul, Connerton, How Societies Remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
2. Hayden White, The Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978); Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative, vol. 3 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988); Paul Veyne, L’inventaire des différences (Paris: Seuil, 1976); Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: The Semantics of Historical Time (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985).
3. Popular Memory Group, “Popular Memory: Theory, Politics, Method,” in Making Histories: Studies in History-Writing and Politics, ed. Richard Johnson (London: Hutchinson, 1982), 4.
4. Friederich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals and the Birth of Tragedy (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956), 48–52.
5. Reinar Schurmann, “Legislation-Transgression: Strategies and Counter Strategies in the Transcendental Justification of Norms,” Man and World 17 (1984): 361–98.
6. Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
7. I use the acronyms IRA (Irish Republican Army) and PIRA (Provisional IRA) interchangeably here.
8. Francis Barker, The Culture of Violence: Essays on Tragedy and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 39–41.
9. It is usual to point to republican funerals as the privileged instance of public commemoration, but I would suggest that for IRA ideologues and activists, it is a subordinate rite to the commemorative agendas of political aggression against the British state and to the memory of the future projected by imputed emancipatory violence.
10. Feldman, Formations of Violence, 218–69.
11. Alan Schechner, Digital Bar Code, and Concentration Camp Processing Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art exhibit, Jewish Museum, New York, 2002.