Connectivity and Civil Religion: Digitizing and Disciplining Holocaust Memory
Lecture by Wulf Kansteiner, Professor WSR
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Axis Mundi - building 1451, room 117
Holocaust Memory has been established as civil religion in the West since the 1970s. But the venerable tradition has problems transitioning into the digital age as a closer look at museum culture, social media, and the video game industry indicates. The established strategies of remembering the Shoah are difficult to reconcile with an increasingly simulative, immersive, and counterfactual historical culture facilitated by digitization.