Beyond trauma? Memories of Joi/y and memory play in Blade Runner 2049

• Published in: Memory studies Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 61 - 73
• Main Author: Arnold-de Simine, Silke
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.02.2019
• Subjects: trauma; DW Winnicott; provisional/transitional space; imagination; joy; affect

Cultural memory studies finds itself at an impasse: whereas ‘cultural memory’ is conceptualized as mediated, dynamic, imaginative and shaped by the present, the dominant paradigm of ‘trauma’ illuminates the hold the past has on us, casting the shadow of a melancholic subjectivity that threatens to o...