Historical Memory, Citation, and the Archive: Activating the Components of Our Culture of Revolt
June 23, 2019, 6-8pm
How do recollections and invocations of past struggles inform contemporary campaigns against injustice? Drawing on material from his new book Premonitions, movement-based scholar AK Thompson reveals how historical memory, citation, and the archive operate unconsciously to constitute the political field and shape our culture of revolt.