“Perspectivism... It is a matter of introducing a kind of awkwardness into the fabric of one’s experience, of interrupting the fluency of the narratives that encode that experience and making them stutter. And the use of history here is to that untimely end - it is a matter of forming a connection or relation between a contemporary question and certain historical events, forming connections that vibrate or resonate and hence introduce a difference, not only in the present, but also in the historical moments it connects up with and deploys” (Rose 1999:20).
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Why are leaders so memorable? We invite you to read, watch, and hear about and from Adam Clayton Powell Jr. What makes 'him' memorable enough to have become a path, a building, and a statue in contemporary Harlem? Is there something solely about the man that makes him memorable? Or does the society around him have something to do with it? |
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Political discourse is sometimes more concerned with the future than with the past. Politics present itself as a possibility of achieving a future utopia. Nonetheless, politics can potentially lead to a dystopic future, as the one imagined for London by Alan Moore and David Lloyd in their graphic novel V of Vendetta. We invite you to go here and read some of the pages of this graphic novel. In them, the main character pronounces a speech about his vision of what humans have done as political beings during their history. It is an account of their past, delivered to us from an imagined future. How do you imagine your future? It would be fun if you would draw a short comic book - or write a short story - about it. Regardless if you do it or not, think about the different ways in which how we imagine our future can change the way in which we remember our past. Do you think there is any connection there? If you want to learn more about the graphic novel V of Vendetta, we suggest you to go here: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/V_for_Vendetta |