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	The Amnesis Manifesto
		The theater and ballet of amnesia enter the realm of absences and presences that constitutes amnesia: from light to darkness, from the visible to the invisible, from presence to what is hidden, from variety to a nuance that approximates uniformity and sameness.
		The totality of human existence is circumscribed by amnesia: the amnesia of a prehistory entirely unrecorded, and the amnesia of a possible (thereby in itself a presence) posthistory when a human race, bu its own hand or because of a natural catastrophe, would be extinct.
		Amnesia can be considered, as the scribes affirmed, terrifying and destructive, comical and beneficent, a state of emptiness or a state that poetically alludes to all things.
	www.smith.edu /calc/manifesto2.html (2062 words)

	Lichtenstein Creative Media - The Infinite Mind: Amnesia
		Jill’s amnesia was caused by an epileptic seizure that occurred after a long session of swimming laps in a pool.
		Physical amnesia is what occurs when there has been some sort of brain insult or trauma and it usually is due to damage to the hippocampal system in the brain.
		Cultural amnesia, when societies for get their histories, is created by a society that suffers from it — it is a ‘self-induced’ condition.
	www.lcmedia.com /mind0021.htm (1585 words)

	culturalamnesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cultural Amnesia are an English group, first active between 1979 and 1983.
		Cultural Amnesia is: Gerard Greenway, Ben Norland and John Peacock.
		Their early outlet was the electro/industrial music cassette culture of the late 70s and early 80s.
	www.culturalamnesia.com (173 words)

	Canada Research Chair in Literary and Cultural Transfers - Axis of Exploration
		The dynamic nature of cultural transfer carries the risk of memory fragmentation, and therefore of a partial forgetfulness, which can be localized at the process's point of initiation, at the moment when the material is selected.
		It turns out, culturally speaking, that memory and forgetfulness are not opposite terms, but rather two sides of the same process, for the law of forgetfulness states that a material's potential for reactivation is proportional to the degree of forgetting it has undergone.
		Firstly, in the cultural domain-contrary to industrial recycling, which seeks to reduce objects, below their cultural identity, to raw materials-memorial traces of the object are never entirely lost.
	www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca /transferts/eng/prog-axis.asp (1747 words)

	Introduction
		Cultural tourism is flourishing, and the wealth and top quality of Austria's cultural presentations bring much desired revenues to this small country of merely eight million people.
		He engages in the debate on the controversial state funding for a "culture for all" that was predominantly advocated by the Social Democrats as supposed to an art and culture industry that perhaps, may have self-supporting potential.
		To a certain degree this of course is to be expected in a society in which cultural funding is almost exclusively a function of the state.
	ww2.lafayette.edu /~lambfafm/litfilm.htm (2869 words)

	Globaldarkness - Cultural Amnesia - early 80s electric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The band was a part of the UK post-punk/industrial cassette culture and had an association with the late John Balance of Coil, who wrote a number of songs for them and was a general supporter and enabler.
		Cultural Amnesia teeter on the brink of total psychosis.
		Cultural Amnesia are an ideal soundtrack for nocturnal Belgrade.
	www.globaldarkness.com /cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=13&topic=494 (301 words)

	The Path of Spiritual and Cultural Evolution
		When human culture strays from the path of healthy evolution and ventures in directions carrying ominous potential, a process is triggered through which humanity's faltering course can be righted.
		This revolutionary thrust shatters the previously inviolate cultural foundation, triggering widespread disillusionment with the status quo, forcing into the open questions long suppressed in cultural amnesia, and threatening the power of institutional guardians.
		The question before you is not whether your culture will make the transition - one could no more order the sun not to rise tomorrow morning - but how difficult you will make it, how much damage protectors of the old order will wreak in their struggle against inevitable decline.
	dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu /~andy/alexander/Alexander/path.html (1345 words)

	Cultural Amnesia — www.greenwood.com
		Cultural Amnesia is a compelling book with the answer to many of our contemporary problems.
		With compelling evidence, the book demonstrates that cultural amnesia, like Alzheimer's disease, is an insidiously progressive and debilitating illness that is eating away at America's soul.
		Rather than superficially blaming memory loss on a failed educational system, Bertman looks beyond the classroom to the larger social forces that conspire to alienate Americans from their past: a materialistic creed that celebrates transience and disposability, and an electronic faith that worships the present to the exclusion of all other dimensions of time.
	www.greenwood.com /books/bookdetail.asp?sku=C6230 (510 words)

	Laura Heinrich's Review
		Only for the cultural elite (Hawthorn, and later Henry Adams and Henry James) was America's lack of history disgraceful.
		Cultural elites, personified by the likes of Henry Adams, Charles Francis Adams, John Dos Passos, and Edith Wharton, argued for the demythification of our history.
		Later, with the influx of immigrants, national cohesion was provided by ignoring the many textured history of immigration, and substituting multiplicity and heterogeneity with the common theme of democracy and the melting pot.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /railton/enam312/enam712/712hein.html (991 words)

	Atlantis Rising - TRACKING THE SECRETS OF THE INCAS by LAURA LEE
		As we awake from the Western society's cultural amnesia, we are piecing together the fragments of a long lost heritage.
		William Sullivan is a cultural historian and archaeoastronomer specializing in the cultures of the Andes.
		Hard to believe of a culture with a rich heritage of megalithic monuments, ancient machinery' that both calculated astronomical observations, and enshrined in their very design ratios and proportions so significant, so expressive of Nature's secret inner workings, its geometry is regarded as sacred.
	atlantisrising.com /issue8/ar8inca.html (2443 words)

	Edward Colless
		Could be, that is, before the advent of an entertainment and infotainment culture that has provided cultural studies with its objects and methods of criticism.
		Parallax is the phenomenon described in optics by which an object appears to be displaced in relation to its background due to a change in position of the observer.
		Adopting this as metaphor, an object of cultural criticism could be said to be composed from the flux of displacements that constitutes its observation.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~abr/April00/col.html (775 words)

	CULTURAL AMNESIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		First of all there is an issue of languages in which the memoirs were written. For many East European Jews Yiddish was the first language, and many authors wrote in Yiddish without even suspecting that after the war Yiddish would cease to be a living language spoken in Europe.
		The cultural complexity, relates to cases when authors emigrated from central and Eastern Europe further West. They were often confronted with a question, in which language to write — their little known Polish, Czech and Hungarian, or in a more diffused languages like English or German.
		Connerton suggests that ‘the narrative of one’s life is a part of an interconnecting set of narratives; it is embedded in the story of those groups from which individuals derive their identity’ (p.
	www.lingue.unibo.it /Acume/sb/sb01essay.htm (1096 words)

	Amnesia - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises...Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (1995), but argues that contemporary women...women writers, are working to resist that amnesia.
		Perjury via amnesia is no easy case to prosecute by...however, witnesses often suffer a kind of amnesia - forgetting names, times, dates and places...federal prosecutors use when selective amnesia occurs before a grand jury or in a federal...
		It is believed that amnesia, the key to formation of the separate personalities, occurs as a psychological barrier to seal off unbearably painful experiences...
	www.questia.com /SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=Amnesia (1416 words)

	Cultural Amnesia
		Egyptian myths of great antiquity relate stories of battles and changes in the sky and of vast destruction on Earth, changes that we neglect to investigate and know in our desire to believe that we live on a planet that is stable and safe.
		The phenomenon of racial amnesia occupied Freud’s mind in the last decades of his life, in fact it became his obsession.
		Amnesia is one of the defense reactions of man. Those who immediately survived did not necessarily become victims of amnesia, though this may have occurred.
	www.varchive.org /lec/lethbridge/amnesia.htm (4202 words)

	Politics and Culture
		And cultural delusions - like the belief that America (or Islam) is the exemplary force of good in the world and that there exists something like an "Axis of Evil" - can, as Griffin argues, "shape [themselves] into such devastating social events as the Holocaust" (158).
		Psychoanalytic analyses of cultural trauma offer us one way to understand this failure to either comprehend the enormity of what is taking place or to speak out against state violence.
		Shoshana Felman discusses this cultural failure to bear witness to the genocide of the Jews in Poland as a function of the different topographical and cognitive positions that victims, perpetrator, and bystanders occupied.
	aspen.conncoll.edu /politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=211 (4371 words)

	Personal reflection on World AIDS Day
		Citing three types of such amnesia -- cultural, personal, and national/social -- Doty spoke about his observations of cultural amnesia in contemporary literature.
		Doty said personal amnesia refers to his own loss of memories, noting that his roommates in New York -- during the early 1980s -- also died from AIDS, but he had not thought of them at all for years.
		As an example of national/social amnesia, he used the film The Broken Hearts Club -- which depicts "young, beautiful, gay men" concerned only with relationships and neglecting to address the issue of AIDS or HIV.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~wh/news/doty.html (518 words)

	Great Performances: Free To Dance - Behind The Dance - The History Of An American Dance Festival Project
		Determined to stem the tide of this cultural amnesia, ADF decided to make the fl tradition in American modern dance the focus of its ongoing Humanities and Public Education programs.
		The participating scholars and choreographers, assisted by dancers illustrating their discussions, have shown how dance is a window on culture; how it provides insight into the life and times of a society or civilization.
		Ancestral, ritualistic, and folk dances have long been sources of information about the work habits, daily routines, and the beliefs and values of the cultures to which they belonged, and this was illustrated, in the case of Native American traditions, by a tribal group from North Carolina, with interpretations by Jamake Highwater.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/freetodance/behind/behind_history.html (917 words)

	:: Reishi Mushroom - Herb Of Spiritual Potency and Medical Wonder :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		To introduce Reishi to a wide audience, it is the challenging job of the author, Terry Willard, to overcome two cultural factors: a cultural bias and a cultural amnesia.
		It is a fact that most cultures, rather then detesting mushrooms, not only love them, but ardently seek them for both food and medicine.
		In this culture, we are not unfamiliar with this concept as seen, for instance, in advertising for milk.
	www.healthymagnets.com /terrywillard.htm (482 words)

	Pop and Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Although Leland’s analysis of film attempts to link this under an umbrella of “amnesia” in general, let’s not forget that when we say amnesia, we mean, of course, selective amnesia; a choice, in a sense, of what we will and won’t remember.
		Yet this very culture of forgetting, this new obsession with amnesia, this mass- historical spectacle of the society, allows a new way to envision ourselves being within a left in America.
		With the culture of forgetting avowedly in full swing, it’s perhaps time to stop trying to ride through the mudfield of politics on a white pony and not get dirty- leave that to people like John McCain who actually believe their pony is still white.
	www.popandpolitics.com /articles_detail.cfm?articleID=1189 (2862 words)

	Cultural Amnesia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cultural Amnesia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Cultural Amnesia are an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (additional info and facts about post punk) post punk group first active between 1979 and 1983.
		Working in the wake of the early industrial bands, CA's output is very diverse, ranging from ambient soundscapes to synthpop, but it can be broadly characterised as song-based electronic music, normally making use of synthesizer, drum machine and guitar.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cu/cultural_amnesia.htm (251 words)

	DIVERSITY
		If the cultural practice of an ethnic group is suppressed, that creates friction and possibly conflict in an effort to regain a lost freedom.
		The right to speak a native tongue, perform cultural rituals and ceremonies was the very heart of indigenous North American daily life.
		Our diversity, ethnic and cultural, political, ethical, musical, morally, is that which challenges us in all areas of our lives.
	www.louisville.edu /~clhugh02/Diversity3.htm (709 words)

	USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education): America is suffering from cultural amnesia - American Thought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The shocking results of these surveys show Americans are suffering from a disease called "cultural amnesia," the social equivalent of Alzheimer's disease.
		Whatever the cause, we may be witnessing an epidemic of amnesia, global in scale, with potentially profound social and political consequences.
		Our amnesia, after all, is not a forgetting just of names and dates, but of what author Theodore Roszak called the "master ideas" --"the great moral, religious, and metaphysical teachings which are the foundation of culture." Those teachings are embodied in great books, but as the books are forgotten and ignored, so are the teachings.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2678_130/ai_80533076 (1560 words)

	What Lies Beneath? Cultural Excavation in Neocolonial Martinique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Through their writing and song, these cultural ecologists voice their reaction against the dependency of Martinique on the French and the effects this continued occupation is having on the land and psyche of their people.
		This cultural displacement is a major concern for Édouard Glissant, who sees a parallel between the consumption of imported goods and cultural alienation.
		Berrian prefaces her work by stating that music is more accessible than literature (which she calls "high-culture") to the Martinican public because it "crosses class lines, [and] is played and heard everywhere: the homes, the supermarkets, the streets, the beaches, the restaurants, and the market places" (ix).
	www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /rgosson/beneath (5838 words)

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		The descriptions of Venus in ancient Babylon, for example, are rarely compared with those of other cultures, and thus the various anomalies in the ancient traditions have thus far remained unnoticed and unappreciated by the scholarly world as a whole.
		It might not be far wrong to look upon the Mesoamerican's great skill in numeration as a child of that planet and to state that their intellectual life pulsed to its periods.
		While the Dresden Codex traces the movements of Venus with great precision-- according to Thompson, it is accurate to within two hours over a period of 500 years--it has long been a source of puzzlement that the various intervals associated with Venus do not accord with their present values.
	www.kronia.com /library/journals/venobs.txt (4053 words)

	The Price of Historical Amnesia
		It may well be that their forgetfulness simply reflects the historical and cultural amnesia which seems to characterize modern memory in the United States.
		This state of historical amnesia is also apparent in America's response to the tragic escalating violence in the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians.
		Just as we would like our school children to remember their lessons and become more involved in the classroom, as American citizens we must offer a better role model and be ever vigilant in fostering our democracy, demanding more from ourselves, the media, and our leaders.
	hnn.us /articles/1007.html (1004 words)

	THE RESTORATION OF ANCIENT HISTORY
		The confusion peaked in an attempt to shift strata of another area of Tell el-Daba between the continuous strata B and A CENTRAL ASIA with the finest stratigraphies at Namazga Depe and Altyn Depe Archaeolo- gical strata groups discovered in the 20th century which were not expected historically (conventional dates).
		However-though they lived in the very territory of the Chaldaeans, where the Chaldaeans are missing-they were not Chaldaeans but Sumerians, and the Greeks had never heard of them: When their poleis (city-states) began culturally to blossom in the early -6th century, the wise men of Sumeria had already met their fate 1,500 years earlier.
		His dissertation was "A Cultural and Intellectual Biography of Immanuel Velikovsky." Dr. Vorhees is currently with the University of Maryland, Asia Division, teaching American History, literature and related courses.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /heinsohn.html (11306 words)

	ICFFS-Cultural Memory Program
		The central issue I would like to address in this paper is the way in which cultural memory evolves through public acts of remembrance against the background of changing social hierarchies.
		Elaborating on the social-constructivist accounts of cultural memory advanced by Jan and Aleida Assman among others, I shal try to put forward a model for describing how cultural memory evolves with the help of public media and through the identification of counter memories or areas of cultural amnesia.
		Central to my discussions is the idea that memories are alway ‘scarce’: memory erosion and loss is as important a feature of cultural memory as conversation and storage.
	www.fsu.edu /~icffs/abstracts/Rigney.html (107 words)

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