General:
Walter Benjamin, „ Edward Fuchs: Collector and Historian,” in One-Way Street and Other Writings, Jephcott and Shorter, trans. (London: Verso, 1979)
Maurice Halbwachs, The collective memory, (New York: Harper & Row Colophon Books, 1980), pdfs of chapters 1 and 2 available on UCSB Collective Memory seminar website
Fredric Jameson, The Cultural Turn, Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998, (London: Verso 1998)
David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985
Pierre Nora, Rethinking France: Les Lieux de mémoire, Volume 4: Histories and Memories (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Pierre Nora, ”Reasons for the Current Upsurge in Memory,” Eurozine, April 19, 2002, http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2002-04-19-nora-en.html
On the End of Communism:
Boris Buden, Transition to Nowhere. Art in History After 1989, (Berlin: Archive, 2020)
Frances Fukuyama, „The End of History?”, in The national Interest, Summer 1989, http://www.wesjones.com/eoh.htm.
Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000). (Especially Chapter I, The Political Frame, 2-40)
Susan Buck-Morss: Aesthetics after the End of Art: An Interview with Susan Buck-Morss Author(s): Grant H. Kester Source: Art Journal, Vol. 56, No. 1, Aesthetics and the Body Politic, (Spring, 1997), pp. 38-45
Published by: College Art Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/777785
Boris Groys, ”A Conversation with Boris Groys about the Post-communist Condition
‘Utopia Is Investment In The Artificial’” (IDEA arts+society #21 – 2005)
http://idea.ro/revista/en/article/XOf11hIAACEAe78q/utopia-is-investment-in-the-artificial
Charity Scribner, Requiem for Communism, (Cambridge MA, London, England: MIT Press, 2003) (Especially ”Introduction: The Second World”, 2-21)
On contemporary art and history/memory:
Peter Osborne, ”Every other Year is Always this Year. Contemporaneity and the Biennial Form”, in: Galit Eilat, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Charles Esche, Pablo Lafuente, Luiza Proença, Oren Sagiv and Benjamin Seroussi (Ed.), Making Biennials in Contemporary Times. Essays from the World Biennial Forum No2, Sao Paulo, Amsterdam : Biennial Foundation; Sao Paulo : Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo; ICCO - Instituto de Cultura Contemporanea present, 2015 p.15-28.
Dieter Roelstraete, ”The Way of the Shovel: On the Archeological Imaginary in Art”,
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-way-of-the-shovel-on-the-archeological-imaginary-in-art/
Dieter Roelstraete, ”After the Historiographic Turn: Current Findings”
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/after-the-historiographic-turn-current-findings/
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