On the necessity of recording community narratives: “all communities tell stories about themselves, about the distinctive nature of their formation and achievements. These stories can have a powerful role in constituting our identities, and so in defining and sustaining our common life. But they are also subject to endless manipulation, for it will always be in the interests of the powerful — rulers and opinion-formers alike — that certain stories should be remembered, and in certain ways, and that other stories should be forgotten.”
The Great Conversation (and how it is we are no longer speaking)
Jo Guldi writing for Absent Magazine, Issue 3: The Surprising Death of the Public Intellectual and a Manifesto for its Restoration: The issue here is the loss, for the public, of a certain kind of memory: the memory of cultural, social, and political history of human timescales, the memory that not so long ago things [...]
Domesticity and Home Part II
McKeon, Michael. The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge.” Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. I was very excited and somewhat saddened to find this book. Excited, because it seems to be in the vein of thought that I am searching for; and saddened because, original contribution being a [...]