“If ‘experience’ . . . is always embedded in and occurs through narrative frames, then there is no primal, unmediated experience that can be recovered. The distinction between history and memory in such accounts is a matter of disciplinary power rather than of epistemological privilege.” (“Social Memory Studies: From ‘Collective Memory’ to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices,” ARS 24 (1998): 105–40, here 110.)For more along these lines, see my most recent thoughts here.
-anthony
By "experience", do you mean the external thing experienced, or the internal quality of experiencing something?
ReplyDeleteGood question, I would have to revisit the context of the quotation to answer that question. If Chris wasn't toting luggage at the moment, we could ask him.
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