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RESEARCH PRODUCT

To Childhood Heroes

Martti Silvennoinen

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LiteratureSociology and Political ScienceCultural analysisbusiness.industryPhilosophyMeaning (existential)businessSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)Memory work

description

Neither a microscope nor a questionnaire, not even a battery of memory tests can be used as a means of memory work. Thus, how to proceed? One possible choice represents the extreme "left" side of European cultural analysis reaching from Ernst Bloch ("Spuren" 1930) and Walter Benjamin ("Berliner Kindheit" 1952) up to Roland Barthes ("Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes" 1975). In the following fragment the experiment is writing about oneself — écriture in Barthesian meaning. This brings another personal and experimental voice into the spectrum of memory works presented in this issue.

https://doi.org/10.1177/101269029402900104