Memory and Aesthetic Experience: Essays on cinema, media and cognition

From the introduction: “The topic of memory is frequent in contemporary thinking about art and aesthetic experience. More than a revivalist drive, a revaluation of the old, a hypervaluation of the present (and its archiving), a historical detachment or a chronic nostalgia in the age of postmodern disenchantment, the influence of reflections on memory in the course of the arts suggests, above all, a profound complicity – perhaps unavoidable – between the notions of temporality and aesthetic experience.”

CONTENTS

Summary and acknowledgements
Filipe Martins

Aesthetics of the unfathomable in Into Eternity and The Voyagers
Jaimie Baron

It is not the brain that remembers: notes on Maine de Biran’s analysis of memory
Luís António Umbelino

Persistence and arbitrariness: considerations about repetition and duration in cinema
Filipe Martins

Memory, cinematic matter
Nelson Araújo

Archaeological practices of cinema: the critique of representation in Straub/Huillet and Farocki
Susana Nascimento Duarte

Non-human memory, techno-traumatic media time: on asymmetries between human Holocaust testimony and algorithmicized forms of digital re-presencing
Wolfgang Ernst

An archive of small media during first wave COVID-19: productive memories of the global trauma
Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann

Bio-bibliographic Notes