Sinopse
Across Fields As Disparate As Historiography, Psychiatry And Anthropology, Remembering Was Long Considered Primary And Forgetting Simply A Malfunction Of Recall. But After Figures Such As Nietzsche And Freud, The Act Of Forgetting Has Undergone A Wholesale Reevaluation; For Many Modern Thinkers, Active Forgetting Is The Precondition For Living. Cabinet Issue 42 Features Jennifer J. Almontez On Greek Orators' Mnemonic System Of Creating Vast “Memory Palaces”; Chip Chapman On Forgetting And The Creation Of National Myths; Sophia Hall On Animal Memory And Obedience Training Methods; An Interview With Jean-Yves Le Naour On The Story Of Anthelme Mangin, France'S Best-Known Wwi Amnesiac; And A Portfolio Featuring Artist-Designed Monuments To Forgetting. Elsewhere In The Issue: Brigid Doherty On British Analyst Wilfred Bion'S Notation For The Unknown; Allen S. Weiss On The Dance Macabre; Erica Owen On The Relationship Between Nineteenth-Century Racial Theories And The Creation Of The Modern Valuation System For “Precious” And “Semi-Precious” Stones; And Much More.