
Digital Trauma (and the Crystal Image)
2017-01-01 · 8 min · Not rated
If we can access our past at any given moment, to what extent can we get rid of it and look ahead? What consequences do the access to a digital memory (including access to the words, images and sounds of the horrors of the past) have for post-conflict societies? Can a digital memory become a powerful tool to ignite more profound ethnic hate, violence and war?
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- María Molina Peiró
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