The Fire These Times

88/ A History of Nothing (With Susan A. Crane)

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This is a conversation with Susan A. Crane, author of the book “Nothing Happened: A History“

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Topics Discussed:

  • How do people think of the past?
  • What does Nothing even mean?
  • Four expressions of historical consciousness:
    • 1- Nothing Happened
    2- Nothing is the Way it Was
    3- Nothing has Changed
    4- Nothing is Left
  • How far away does the past have to be before being considered the past?
  • What the past says about the present
  • The examples of Germany, Chile, the USA, Spain and Lebanon
  • When histories become ruin
  • On biographies and ‘great men’
  • On ‘objectivity’ and ‘neutrality’ in history

    • Resources mentioned:

    • Why Man Creates by Saul Bass
    • The Death of Luigi Trastulli: Memory and the Event. Form and Meaning in Oral History by Alessandro Portelli
    • Nostalgia for the light by Patricio Guzmán
    • History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige by Rea Tajiri
    • The mnemonic imagination by Emily Keightley and Michael Pickering
    • Why Did Ozu Cut To A Vase? by Nerdwriter

      • Recommended Books

      • In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale
      • The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny by Susan Lepselter
      • Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman
      • A History of Silence: From the Renaissance to the Present Day by Alain Corbin
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