{"id":32815,"date":"2021-06-28T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/?p=32815"},"modified":"2023-07-09T14:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T12:45:12","slug":"collapsing-time-folding-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/collapsing-time-folding-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Collapsing time, folding space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think often of the memory of bronze and flesh, the memory in our words, the memory in marble, the memory on paper and the memory on the screen. Memory that lives in the body and orality is constantly evolving and mutating <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"> <span lang=\"ES-TRAD\">refer to what historian Pierre Nora describes as the <i>milieux de m\u00e9moire<\/i>, see <\/span><span lang=\"PT\">Nora, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Between Memory and History<\/span><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>, memory written on paper transcends the lifespan of biological organisms, bronze and stone extends its lifetime for centuries in exchange for stability, and the screen returns to memory a capacity for its datafication and impermanence <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Reading, \u2018Seeing Red\u00a0<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>. Each medium conditions memory\u2019s capacity for mutation or stability, for response or neglect, for healing or harm. But is not the bronze of the statues to Robert E. Lee, Cristopher Columbus, Edward Colston, or Fray Junipero Serra which offends and drives a global movement for their toppling. It is this capacity monuments have for affective programming\u2013or <em>mnemonic control <\/em>as defined by cultural theorist Luciana Parisi\u2013which we find culpable: the ransom of our cultural narratives by power structures which enforce permanence and maintenance of such objects in public space <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"> Parisi and Goodman, \u2018Mnemonic Control\u2019<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>. There we find the ill-spring of whiteness that imposes upon our social, environmental, and individual bodies\u2013alive and present here and now\u2013structures of hierarchy which dehumanise and oppress melanin-difference. Yet we fix our attention on those statues as proxies of past wars to preserve Black slavery, past colonial expeditions to extract wealth from earth, or past cultural genocide perpetrated upon First Peoples. We attach with excess of energy onto these representations of such pasts. But the past is never past <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_4');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_4');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[4]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_4\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"> Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, p 85<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_4').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_4', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>. The violence of colonial and racist whiteness continues to be perpetrated upon the multiple and mutable presents of our diverse and divergent selves, not quite through the iron of chains, but mediated through the bronze of monuments which obfuscate violence yet to come. Freud wrote about how some of his patients, when asked to recall distant memories from childhood\u2013too distant to be recalled accurately\u2013as screened memories. Bronze so becomes a screen memory: an incomplete reconstruction of our own narrative, one which instigates the compulsive repetition of the violence of the past. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_5');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_5');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[5]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_5\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"> Freud, \u201cRemembering, Repeating and Working-Through.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_5').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_5', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>.<\/p>\n<p>Such fixation upon the material of monuments in lieu of the materials of flesh and law\u00a0 often complicate paths to the working-through of trauma\u2013it\u2019s healing\u2013which traverse processes of justice, reparation and non-repetition. For we don\u2019t really remember just for the sake of remembrance. What we seek through remembrance is to understand our violent selves, and from there, take steps to redress our-selves, and so the locus of therapy becomes the bodies of our social, collective, gregarious, nature-bound others. That is what memory, in a most biological and fundamental dimension, is for: the ability to store acquired knowledge for later recall to intentionally avoid predictably disagreeable circumstances and plan for future action <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_6');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_6');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_6\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[6]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_6\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"> Sherwood, 2010, 158<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_6').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_6', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>. Yet the spaces of courts and institutions are too often too complex to work through with, and to transform their potential for violence into capacity for caring demands levels of agency and advocacy difficult to access\u2013especially to those affected by barbarity. This is why I believe we have ritualized the destruction of the bronze in monuments: there we find no gatekeepers who defend with law the immutability of violent power structures. We come face to face, without apparent intermediary, to this metallic mediation of violence. When we overturn those statues of colonizers, an outlet for dignified rage is torn open through the fabric of public space. It also closes the wound too soon for it to heal. Without the sunlight and fresh air of public scrutiny and public truth, it festers in impunity until its soreness is a blight which no longer can be ignored, and we collect and commingle to tear bronze open again. Ritus ad perpetuam.<\/p>\n<p>If it is liberation from violence that we have declared to seek, then the compulsive repetition of the ritual of toppling monuments which fixate the past presents two problems. First, we project the violence perpetrated by offending power structures and their agents onto the bronze\u2013and if the dead don\u2019t bother for the particulars of those alive, their representations care even less. Second, we displace the violence suffered by those alive today away from their bodies and communities, and focus efforts on to an abstract collective body of protest. What is problematic in these rituals aren\u2019t the tensions between the individual and the collective, nor the loci of the past against the present, but the drive to choose one over the other because we continue to conceive time as linear and space as cartographic.<\/p>\n<p>How can we find liberation from temporal linearity and spatial cartography, these narrative structures necessary for monuments to make sense? How could we stimulate temporal simultaneities and spatial topologies which collapse time and fold space so the colonizer of the past may converse with the colonized of today? Seeking possible answers, I turn to fiction\u2013particularly science fiction\u2013to imagine not just the futures where we face violence, but effectively transform it into justice, reparation, and non-repetition. Through this move, we may can gain focus on the narrational structures of the monuments we wish to topple today, as well as the narration of violence of tomorrow. The material then is not just bronze, or flesh, or law, but all these and more woven together through the fabric of fictional storytelling. To become capable of remembering the unmanifested. To anticipate\u2013not just remember\u2013memory.<\/p>\n<p>I listen to the cries of Beloved in Toni Morrison\u2019s <em>rememory<\/em> and the refusal of the past to be left past, but to collect present traumas which chase future generations to come. I mind-walk through novelist Juan Rulfo\u2019s Comala, an entire town riddled with ghosts that whisper at night stories of violent pasts. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_7');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_7');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_7\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[7]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_7\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"> Ag, \u201cToni Morrison: Rememory and Writing\u201d <\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_7').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_7', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>. Fiction abounds with narratives where irresolute pasts haunt characters whether they be accidental visitors or descendants. History, no longer concerned with positivist temporal linearity, has embraced an interest in spiraling conceptions of time as well. Historian Alexander Avi\u00f1a\u2019s view on cyclical histories of violence in Mexico, where irresolution and repetition of injustice possess new generations of social struggles, only to become spectres of revolution <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_8');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_8');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_8\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[8]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_8\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"> Avi\u00f1a, Specters of Revolution\u00a0<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_8').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_8', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>. Yet these examples engage the past with the present, but seldom look to the future to include this folding of time and space. Memory scholar Stef Craps engages productively with <em>anticipated memory<\/em> as he looks to how film and fiction has imagined futures where the climate crisis was not averted, and future historian\u2019s perspectives narrate back to our present selves the catastrophe yet to come. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_9');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_32815_1('footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_9');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_9\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[9]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_9\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"> Craps, \u201cClimate Change and the Art of Anticipatory Memory\u201d<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_9').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_32815_1_9', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>.<\/p>\n<p>And so I think back on bronze, flesh, paper and screen as the monuments fall. What will replace them? Will it be an updated sculpture that will be once again toppled in future ritual? Or can we challenge the material of memory radically, to collapse time and fold space into a new form of remembrance, of engagement with memory through fiction, to not just imagine the repetition of violence, but its continuous and impermanent liberation? Perhaps, would we turn from history as the raw material of monuments and towards the material of fiction and narration, to not <em>occupy<\/em>, but continuously <em>create<\/em> space and time, new forms of remembrance can edge us closer to the reason why we remember: not to recall, but to prevent harm from recurrence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bibliography<\/p>\n<p>Ag, Peter Lang. \u201cToni Morrison: Rememory and Writing,\u201d 2021, 19.<\/p>\n<p>Avi\u00f1a, Alexander. Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside. Oxford: Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Craps, Stef. \u201cClimate Change and the Art of Anticipatory Memory.\u201d Parallax 23, no. 4 (October 2, 2017): 479\u201392. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13534645.2017.1374518.<\/p>\n<p>Faulkner, William. Requiem for a Nun. London: Vintage, 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman, Lindsey A., Benjamin Nienass, and Laliv Melamed. \u201cScreen Memory.\u201d International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 26, no. 1 (March 2013): 1\u20137. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10767-013-9135-x.<\/p>\n<p>Freud, Sigmund. \u201cRemembering, Repeating and Working-Through.\u201d Further Recommendations on the Technique of Psycho-Analysis, 1914, 6.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon, Avery. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. New University of Minnesota Press ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Leyh, Brianne McGonigle. \u201cImperatives of the Present: Black Lives Matter and the Politics of Memory and Memorialization.\u201d Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 38, no. 4 (December 2020): 239\u201345. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0924051920967541.<\/p>\n<p>Nora, Pierre. \u2018Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de M\u00e9moire\u2019. <em>Representations<\/em>, no. 26 (April 1989): 7\u201324. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/2928520\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/2928520<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parisi, Luciana, and Steve Goodman. \u201cMnemonic Control.\u201d In Beyond Biopolitics, edited by Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse, 163\u201376. Duke University Press, 2011. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/9780822394235-007.<\/p>\n<p>Perez, Javier Ernesto. \u201cSpeculating Ancestor(Ie)s: The Cavernous Memory of White Innocence and Fluid Embodiments of Afrofuturist Memory-Work.\u201d Humanities 9, no. 4 (November 23, 2020): 138. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/h9040138.<\/p>\n<p>Reading, Anna. \u2018Seeing Red: A Political Economy of Digital Memory\u2019. <em>Media, Culture &amp; Society<\/em> 36, no. 6 (September 2014): 748\u201360. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0163443714532980\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0163443714532980<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sherwood, Lauralee. Human Physiology: From Cells to Systems. 7th ed. Australia\u202f; United States: Brooks\/Cole, Cengage Learning, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Toppled Monuments Archive. \u201cToppled Monuments Archive.\u201d Accessed April 5, 2021. https:\/\/www.toppledmonumentsarchive.org.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Featured image:Illustration by Sergio Beltr\u00e1n-Garc\u00eda)<\/p>\n<div class=\"speaker-mute footnotes_reference_container\"> <div class=\"footnote_container_prepare\"><p><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_label pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_32815_1();\">&#x202F;<\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"display: none;\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_32815_1();\">[<a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_32815_1\">+<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"footnote_references_container_32815_1\" style=\"\"><table class=\"footnotes_table footnote-reference-container\"><caption class=\"accessibility\">References<\/caption> <tbody> \r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_32815_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_1');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_1\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>1<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"> <span lang=\"ES-TRAD\">refer to what historian Pierre Nora describes as the <i>milieux de m\u00e9moire<\/i>, see <\/span><span lang=\"PT\">Nora, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Between Memory and History<\/span><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_32815_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_2');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_2\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>2<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Reading, \u2018Seeing Red\u00a0<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_32815_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_3');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_3\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>3<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"> Parisi and Goodman, \u2018Mnemonic Control\u2019<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_32815_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_32815_1_4');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_32815_1_4\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>4<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"> Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, p 85<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" 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