Publication: La morada moderna y contemporánea de la memoria colectiva: memoriales en Europa, Latinoamérica y México
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Lázaro Villaverde, Fabricio
Cota Castillejos, Edith
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Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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En el siglo XX dentro del proyecto de Modernidad, la muerte colectiva es una herida abierta en la psique humana, su posible cicatriz en el territorio simbólico son los memoriales como espacios de reflexión y catarsis, donde se ritualizan tragedias y subliman procesos de pérdida y duelo como instrumentos de terapia social que en ocasiones resultan más un olvido que una memoria activa.El texto estructura un recorrido a través de dos conceptos: promenade architecturale y memoria, circunscritos al mito griego de Mnemosyne, desde donde observar críticamente una selección de memoriales desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX como genealogía reverberada en memoriales contemporáneos de México y la discusión sobre la pertinencia de ellos como herramienta política de olvido en una sociedad lacerada por tragedias naturales, violencia de estado y delincuencia organizada
In the XX century, in the project of Modernity, collective death is an open wound in the human psyche. Within the symbolic field, a possible scar are the memorials as spaces for reflection and catharsis, where tragedies are ritualized, and processes of loss and mourning are sublimated as instruments of social therapy that, occasionally, result in a type of oblivion more than in an active memory.This text lays a route along two concepts, promenade architecturale and memory, circumscribed to the Greek myth of Mnemosyne, as viewpoints to observe critically a selection of memorials from the second half of the XX century as a genealogy reflected on contemporary memorials in Mexico. It also aims to discuss their appropriateness as political instruments of oblivion in a society struck by natural tragedies, state violence, and organized crime.
In the XX century, in the project of Modernity, collective death is an open wound in the human psyche. Within the symbolic field, a possible scar are the memorials as spaces for reflection and catharsis, where tragedies are ritualized, and processes of loss and mourning are sublimated as instruments of social therapy that, occasionally, result in a type of oblivion more than in an active memory.This text lays a route along two concepts, promenade architecturale and memory, circumscribed to the Greek myth of Mnemosyne, as viewpoints to observe critically a selection of memorials from the second half of the XX century as a genealogy reflected on contemporary memorials in Mexico. It also aims to discuss their appropriateness as political instruments of oblivion in a society struck by natural tragedies, state violence, and organized crime.
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Atrio. Revista de Historia del Arte, ISSN-e 2659-5230, ISSN 0214-8293, Nº. 29, 2023, págs. 448-470




