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Creating memory during and after wartime trauma is vexed by state attempts to control public and private discourse. Science fiction author Iain Banks’ novel Look to Windward proposes different ways of preserving memory and culture, from posthuman memory devices, to artwork, to architecture, to perso...

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Published inBulletin of science, technology & society Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 259 - 273
Main Author Blackmore, Tim
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.08.2010
Subjects
Architecture
Canada
Death
Discourse Analysis
Foreign Countries
Futures (of Society)
Influence of Technology
Literary Criticism
Memory
Public Policy
Science and Society
Science Fiction
Technological Advancement
United States
War
Canada
United States
trauma
war
memory
technology
science fiction
posthumanism
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Summary:Creating memory during and after wartime trauma is vexed by state attempts to control public and private discourse. Science fiction author Iain Banks’ novel Look to Windward proposes different ways of preserving memory and culture, from posthuman memory devices, to artwork, to architecture, to personal, local ways of remembering.
ISSN:0270-4676
1552-4183
DOI:10.1177/0270467610373816