Noah's ark: evangelical christianity and the creation of a value environment in hong kong

Goh, Robbie B. H.

doi:10.2752/175183414x13990269049446

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“…They are also immersive experiences, differing from the two-and three-dimensionality of visual and plastic monuments by surrounding the viewer with symbolic signification on all sides. In this sense CCMs are closer to the experiences of participants of sites and events like heritage locations, interactive theater, engaged tourism, and similar immersive and interactive experiences (O'Neill 2008, 19-20;Goh 2014;Waterton and Watson 2014, 93-96). Correspondingly, the scale of CCMs is on the human experiential, rather than the monumental, level.…”

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Memorializing genocide: embodied semiotics in concentration camp memorials

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2016

Social Semiotics

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Theorists have argued that the "attempt to comprehend" the genocidal event represented by Auschwitz has "defeated the intellects of countless men and women". Memorials at Auschwitz and other concentration camps such as Dachau and Buchenwald, and to a certain extent those outside of Europe, such as Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek in Cambodia, are attempts to call attention to these atrocities in the hope of preventing the repetition of their like. Yet these projects, like all historical monuments and memorials, face the problem of a certain coldness and indifference caused by historical distance, consumerist culture and the seemingly abstract nature of historical images and documents. Concentration camp memorials are not entirely immune from these problems. However, in their use of an embodied semiotics invoking the visitor's own body as a direct participant in immersive environments, sensory surfaces and displays, these memorials engage -not unproblematically -in a project to realize this history in visceral and concrete ways. This paper examines the semiotic strategies of the concentration camp as a technique of "embodying" suffering that is intended to counter the dissipation of affect in a media-saturated consumerist era.

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