Every Monument Will Fall
Autor Dan Hicksen Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 iun 2025
Analiza propusă de Dan Hicks în Every Monument Will Fall se concentrează pe aplicabilitatea practică a deconstrucției memoriei publice, oferind un instrument de lucru esențial pentru înțelegerea conflictelor culturale actuale. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autorul nu se limitează la o dezbatere teoretică despre estetică, ci trasează o linie directă între ridicarea statuilor, fundamentele arheologiei și achiziția de resturi umane ancestrale sau artă furată. Observăm o structură narativă ambițioasă care îmbină biografia cu excavarea istorică, mutând discuția de la plantațiile din Caraibe la posturile coloniale britanice. Recomandăm această lectură pentru rigoarea cu care pune în contrast memorializarea unor figuri precum Cecil Rhodes cu perspectivele critice ale lui Stuart Hall sau Ursula Le Guin, scoțând la iveală „secretele deschise” ale dezumanizării care stau la baza patrimoniului nostru material. Această lucrare acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Monument Culture de Laura A. Macaluso, dar cu o abordare mai speculativă și mai profund ancorată în istoria colonială globală, refuzând soluțiile simpliste în favoarea unei noi culturi a memoriei. Autorul face un apel urgent la reasamblarea fragmentelor istorice și la ascultarea tăcerilor din arhive, propunând o reconciliere care începe prin recunoașterea pierderilor colective.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1529152747
Pagini: 592
Dimensiuni: 161 x 238 x 53 mm
Greutate: 0.88 kg
Editura: Random House UK
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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor în studii culturale și celor interesați de istoria colonialismului. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nuanțată asupra „războaielor culturale” moderne, învățând să descifreze mesajele politice ascunse în monumentele publice. Este o resursă valoroasă pentru a înțelege cum memoria colectivă este modelată prin obiecte și cine are puterea de a decide ce merită păstrat și ce trebuie lăsat să cadă pentru a face loc umanității.
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'Hicks' must-read book describes how it was possible for a human skull to be made into a drinking cup and used in a genteel Oxford college, well into the 21st century, as if empire were an eternal state of nature . . . Read it to learn new ways to be anti-racist, abolitionist and to tell other stories than those commemorated by the monuments that surround us, from statues, to museums and the police' Nicholas Mirzoeff, author of White Sight
'Brave and clear-sighted. Hicks opens up an extraordinary conversation between the past and the present. This is a book about falling statues, but so much more. It's about how we've been lied to, and how we can approach the past with honesty. Hicks asks whether history and archaeology should be used to justify actions we know impinge on the rights of others - or to understand ourselves better' Alice Roberts, bestselling author of Crypt
'Dan Hicks writes with grace and fierce focus about what we choose to remember and why, in our patterns of thought, our institutions and the built environment in which we live' Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture
The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn't even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums, public art, and even universities - and one that has a deeper history than you might think.
Tracing the origins of contemporary conflicts over art, heritage, memory, and colonialism, Every Monument Will Fall joins the dots between the building of statues, the founding of academic disciplines like archaeology and anthropology, and the warehousing of stolen art and human skulls in museums - including the one in which he is a curator.
Part history, part biography, part excavation, the story runs from the Yorkshire wolds to the Crimean War, from southern Ireland to the frontline of the American Civil War, from the City of London to the University of Oxford - revealing enduring legacies of militarism, slavery, racism and white supremacy hardwired into the heart of our cultural institutions.
Every Monument Will Fall offers an urgent reappraisal of how we think about culture, and how to find hope, remembrance and reconciliation in the fragments of an unfinished violent past. Refusing to choose between pulling down every statue, or living in a past that we can never change, the book makes the case for allowing monuments to fall once in a while, even those that are hard to see as monuments, rebuilding a memory culture that is in step with our times.
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There's a culture war, we're told. Or maybe it's a war on culture - a war with a deeper and more troubling history than you might think. Tracing the origins of contemporary conflicts over art, colonialism and memory, Dan Hicks joins the dots between the building of statues, the founding of disciplines like archaeology and anthropology, and the acquisition of stolen art and ancestral human remains. Part history, part biography, part excavation, Every Monument Will Fall pulls at a thread that runs through this history - from country houses in the Yorkshire Wolds to Caribbean plantations and from the battlefields of Crimea and the American Civil War to British colonial outposts in southern Ireland. The book holds the memorialisations of men like Cecil Rhodes and General Augustus Pitt-Rivers up against the writing of Sylvia Wynter, Stuart Hall and Ursula Le Guin, drawing together open secrets about dehumanisation and the redaction of public memory. What emerges is a speculative history of inheritance, loss, collective mourning, and the possibility of a reconciliation that has not yet begun. This is a story about who gets named and who doesn't, who is remembered and who is forgotten; who has been treated as human and who has not. Refusing to choose between pulling down every single statue, or holding onto every last vestige of a past that future generations could never change, Every Monument Will Fall makes the case for allowing monuments of all kinds to fall once in a while. The result is an urgent appeal to reassemble the fragments, listen to the silences, value life and humanity above material things - and to rebuild a new kind of memory culture.