Thinking With | Michael Rothberg | The Implicated Subject

CONVERSATION | 22 July 2020 | 19:00 - 20:30 CET | Online
In this conversation, as part of the RCMC Thinking With series, Michael Rothberg will discuss his work notably in The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators (Stanford University Press, 2019). We invite Rothberg to think with us for he insists on theorizing non-competitive memory as an ethics of the multidirectional. In our ethnographic museums, we often are interested in thinking through concepts such as multivocality and are aware of the complexity and continued struggles of this demand. We are especially provoked by Rothberg’s most recent deliberation on the implicated subject, which offers a perspective to think differently about notions of victim and perpetrator, so that we may imagine “connections to injustices past and present” (Rothberg). We are encouraged by Rothberg’s notion of plurality to implicate each of us in carving out better ways of accountability for our pasts and our presents.

[@AaronStierCohen1]

Someone's been watching "the good place."

[@elachechino]

Weak theory. Bad analogies. Not even practical. Mixing bunch of stuff. Others are using his book to "compare" (not compete ) the Holocaust with the Palestinian suffering. That's unethical to say the least. Comparing the Palestinian suffering to Jewish sufferings and comparing Israelies to nazis, either as perpetrators or perpetuaters. Pff rubbish! Discarding real facts like Palestinians leadership and Muslims supported the nazis to oppose the Brits. No Muslim guilt? Racial Laws in the Palestinian territories condemn by death penalties the sale of property to Jews til now. Me too movement example pff as well come on.