AMST 384 1st Edition Lecture 29Outline of Last Lecture II. PTSDIII. Image of a VeteranOutline of Current Lecture Lecture: Lincoln’s body may not be here but his memory is circulating in all different ways.Washington D.C.- Controversy between how to vote since it isn’t a state but is the capital of the nationo Representatives voted to make weed legal but government doesn’t support that- Several Memorials of Lincoln, MLK, Washington, etco Marine Corps (Iwo Jima) Memorial - New Monument: o Black patriots of the Revolution Key Topic: D.C. Mall is the Mall of National Memory - The Mallo Capital building, Washington Monument, White House, Lincoln Monument Shape of a cross, these four monuments are on the edges of each lego McMillian Plan Shaped in this way- No one lives here, only go there to learn about past Washington Monument- Tallest building, significant - Most power, remember- Extraordinary core- Connection between this Monument and home of the COngresso Lincoln, Jefferson, and MLK Memorials are all in a line The line of power - WWII Memorial Part of the National Mallo Dedicated by George Bush in 2004These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.o First proposed in 1987, raised $197 milliono Finally starting to be built in 2001o Rectified into sites of useable memory o GI Bill Sent many veterans to colleges as a living memorial of WWII Highways designated to memorials Dynamic sites of living created o Rainbow Pool replaced by WWII Memorial Symbolically, fewer protests held there now Embeds circulation, not as easy to walk around Takes apotheosis of leaders and brings together people who sacrificed their life for the army - Democratized allegiance of figures in power fighting for our nation 56 different pillars, 48 states plus 8 territorys like the Virgin Islands, etc. each have wreaths around them to remember those who fought Freedom Wall: 4,048 gold stars, each representing 100 Americans who died in the war- Huge magnitude of stars- Very effective- No names, less personalized - “Here we mark the price of freedom” Vernacular Element: graffiti on monument that says “Killroy is here”- This is what they would say when they made it to a new country- They got it engraved into the memorial so it went from a vernacular memory to a public memory now- Maya Lino Architect of the Vietnam War Memorialo Unanimously chosen to do the design of this memorial o 5,000 men died of suicide after the war, just as much as those who died in combat because it was a highly unpopular war neglect after their returno Design: “I had a simple impulse to cut into the earth”- part of the Mall that was still undeveloped - she wanted to cut a knife into the ground, the initial cut would remain butthe grass would eventually grow back. The names on the memorial would become the memorial and allow people to respond and remember - interface between our world and the quieter, darker, more peaceful world of the beyond - mirror would double the size and create 2 worlds, one of which we are living and one we cant remember - 2 wings, one faces Washington monument and the other Lincoln memorial- below the earth, as you walk down, it gets underground - only thing you can see are the names Names listed chronologically and inscribed on the walls, the granite used is so clear so that it can be reflective. Only thing important is the names- Freud: “Screen Memory”o Frued suspected that any memory that presented itself to consciousness with great intensity might be a screen, so creating a theory of memory as a realm deeply affected by elements of fantasy o A retrospective fantasy that acts as a defense against the emergence of represeed elementsthat have been displaced onto other events and causes that screens out an earlier trauma from the ego. - Frued’s “Secondary Revision”o Secondary revision can be thought as a the ways in which the dream work covers up contradiction and attempts through narrative coherence to reorganize the dream into a conventional pattern in sync with the dreamer’s experience of everyday
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