The stories we tell: uncanny encounters in Mr Straw’s House

Simine, Silke Arnold‐de

doi:10.1080/13527258.2018.1424645

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“…This notion of the uncanny is interesting, connecting with debates within robotics and artificial intelligence about feelings of unsettlement provoked by representations that are human, but not quite human enough. The uncanny, according to Arnold-de-Simine, can be both enabling and dangerous, allowing people to ‘hold potentially conflicting reactions (disturbing/comforting) in suspension’ (2019:92), as we saw in the ambivalence expressed by many in our Twitter sample. This notion of ambivalence will be a recurring one in the sections that follow, demonstrating the unsettled quality of our responses to these technologies, and of the technologies themselves.…”

Section: ‘This Is the First Time I’ve Seen Him Smile’: Remediated Mem...mentioning

confidence: 88%

Deep Nostalgia: Remediated memory, algorithmic nostalgia and technological ambivalence

Kidd

McAvoy

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Digital recreations of the past, and of the deceased, are part of the Internet’s present. They circulate within social networks where logics of connection and connectivity underpin increasingly performative memory work. In this article we explore these developments through a case study of the MyHeritage deep learning feature, Deep Nostalgia. Our analysis is informed by a close critical study of Deep Nostalgia creations, and discourses circulating around them, shared on Twitter during the two-week period following its launch, February 2021 (n.6935). We examine how memory is evoked, framed, re-worked and distorted through algorithmic processes, and within social networks in particular, and explore what this tells us about peoples' need to connect with their pasts. First, we analyse how the shift from photo to video ‘revives’ the dead via a process that we have termed ‘remediated memory’. Second, we explore the affective dimensions and resonances of Deep Nostalgia creations. In doing so, we introduce the concept of ‘algorithmic nostalgia’ to describe the ways nostalgia is generated, organised and exploited through Deep Nostalgia’s automated and recursive algorithmic mechanisms. Third, we interrogate the ways social media logics shape the use and influence of these outputs. Our study’s scholarly contribution is at the intersection of memory, automation, and algorithms. We highlight the importance of studying the ambivalence of emerging media at their nexus with memory studies and, critically, of attending to the ways corporate interests increasingly shape – and assimilate – these activities.

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Section: ‘This Is the First Time I’ve Seen Him Smile’: Remediated Mem...mentioning

confidence: 88%

Deep Nostalgia: Remediated memory, algorithmic nostalgia and technological ambivalence

Kidd

McAvoy

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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“…Yet, Miriam Eshkol’s work and life are not presented in the house outside the confines of the kitchen. Arnold de-Simine (2018) provides a case of a British home museum of a Victorian family in which a story of a non-elite and non-heteronormative family is presented. Nonetheless, the home museum frames traumas alluded therein within a national bourgeois context.…”

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Moving gender: Home museums and the construction of their inhabitants

Vinitzky‐Seroussi

Dekel

2019

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Home museums in Israel and Germany produce a representational space in which the public figure, usually a ‘great man,’ is effectively ‘dragged home’ to the so-called private sphere so as to make the domestic worthy of musealization. Based on three years of ethnographic research in nine such museums (four in Israel and five in Germany), this article shows that when the sphere most identified with women is represented through the life and work of the men who lived there, the place of the wife and children is sidelined, belittled, and at times concealed. In representing famous persons through material space and objects in the private abode, museal techniques determine which specific domestic areas, such as the kitchen and the bedroom, become the prime location of telling stories about women who lived in the house. They provide a shared perspective for visitors who find the stories about the wives endearing, recognizing home through them.

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“…During the interview sessions, the objects functioned as mediators and gate openers, engaging people on a sensory level beyond verbal conversation (Miller 2008). In contrast to memory elicitation methods based on artefacts belonging to prior generations (Kuhn 2007; S. Arnold-de Simine, 2019), I deliberately focused on contemporary ideas and objects to trigger a discourse about the present in connection to the past and the future.…”

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Future memory work: unsettling temporal Othering through speculative research practices

Chahine

2022

Qualitative Research

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This article introduces ‘future memory work’ as a conceptual framework and speculative practice to unsettle the temporal hierarchies that are intrinsically tied to the anthropological project and that lead to Othering through time. By adding a future dimension to memory work – a concept and methodological tool to better understand how we make sense of the world around us – it becomes possible not only to acknowledge but proactively make use of how the future shapes the way we (re)construct the past in the now. The article foregrounds a study wherein young Indigenous people from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) were invited to create ‘future memories’ for subsequent generations by producing ‘memory texts’ that best represent what they consider worth preserving. In my research, I utilize the future to elevate the present in conjunction with the past and illustrate how this future-orientation offers an alternative temporal frame to investigate young Kalaallit’s (Greenlandic Inuit) multitemporal relations to the world.

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The stories we tell: uncanny encounters in Mr Straw’s House

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

Deep Nostalgia: Remediated memory, algorithmic nostalgia and technological ambivalence

Deep Nostalgia: Remediated memory, algorithmic nostalgia and technological ambivalence

Moving gender: Home museums and the construction of their inhabitants

Future memory work: unsettling temporal Othering through speculative research practices

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