Rebecca Adelman
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Benedict Anderson
Hi Nathanael, I don't have an exact page number but it's an idea he takes up in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. Happy reading! ... -
"That Day"
Monika, thanks for doing this archival work to construct a record of front pages. Until you mentioned it, I hadn't noticed the use of "that day" as a common rhetorical practice. Curious your thoughts about that descriptor (or non-descript ... -
That's really interesting,
That's really interesting, and makes me think about how vague constructions like "the event" or "that day" simultaneously empty the actual event, the actual day, of meaning while simultaneously suggesting that they are so momentou ... -
Thank you!
Thank you, Monika, for your careful read and kind words. I think you're absolutely right about how the nature of the coloring/activity book might mean that it works as a different, and perhaps more compelling, form of interpellation than narrative a ... -
This is a complicated issue ...
Thanks, Andrea, for sharing your experience. I can only imagine how complicated this must feel as a parent. I talk a bit about the question of children's classroom encounters with images like this in a couple of articles and my recent book (pleas ... -
Is a partial history better or worse than no history at all?
Thank you, Nathanael for this post; I'd like to keep thinking about the possibility of a genealogy that links the post-September 11th inward turn you described and subsequent movements for social justice. It's a claim that strikes me as counteri ... -
What might media coverage of a similar event look like today?
Thanks, James, for this personal account. Your story makes me wonder how September 11th would have been, or felt, different if social media was as ubiquitous then as it is now, and whether the availability of something like Twitter would have resolved, o ...