The following review (from the Fibreculture list) seems to touch on the
recent debate here on WDL about memory, mind and forgetting.
* Marc Augé (2004) Oblivion. Minneapolis and London: University of
Minnesota Press. Reviewed by Les Roberts.
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Reviews/rev50.htm
For Les Roberts, Augé¹s dialectic of memory and forgetting, as outlined
in his recent book, Oblivion, may be looked upon as a Œmapping¹ of
temporal lacunae and discontinuities. Roberts¹ use of a geographical
metaphor is intended on the one hand to bring to the fore some of the
spatial implications of Augé¹s thesis and in this regard comparisons
with Augé¹s earlier work on non-places (1995), or his more recent Le
temps en ruines (2003) prove instructive. One the other, this metaphor
is aimed at countering the (a)spatial essentialism of the Bergsonian
durée, in which space is subordinated to a temporal logic of flow and
continuity, an instrumental logic that informs the radical
deterritorialisations of the Œrhizome¹ and Œnomad¹.
Best
Simon
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