Notes from memory research

Thomas Fenenczi
- Can one ever rebuild/reconstruct memory. 
- Interview with Boltanski, p. 268. '' Art fights against death, eg. Giacometti who paints his brother everyday so he will never forgot him. 
- What are the limits of our memory and is a simple memory even possible? p. 290 - ''Le devoir de mémoire et le droit á l'oubli'' - we need to remember our past but we have the right to forget it. (Use this article in the learning journal perhaps)
- At any random point we can remember something from the past, like seeing something from a forgotten life. 
Relating to the Algerian war: ''L'empire perdu, L'Algerie, c'était la France' - it's their lost colony. And how we can have a ''retour de mémoire sur la guerre'', through installations mémorielles, like war memorials, tributes, 11th November etc. ______________________________________________________________________


F.Dosse
- Relationship between memory and history - 'Le futur du passé' - how our past creates our future. 
- What actually is the point in remembering war? Yes, we should remember the suffering but to what extent? And why
- The presence of absence is so important in everyday life, but it's almost like we're between a world of the living and the dead - cannot let go of the past, but need to in order to make a future.