Classicising ‘Pindar’: Quotation, Canonisation and Early Reception

This essay examines the earliest quotations of Pindar in order to shed light on the social and historical dynamics through which he first emerged as a classic author. Pindaric quotations from the classical period point to his stratified and multi-faceted reception: as a figure within popular memory, as an emblem of elite culture and as an intellectual ancestor. Indeed, a capacity to appeal to different audiences for different but interconnected reasons was integral to his canonisation. The earliest Pindaric quotations already bespeak his culturally privileged status, which was expressed and perpetuated in different ways over the centuries but which was established as a social fact from remarkably early on. A search for the deepest roots of the classicisation of Pindar, it is argued, has to go all the way back to his poetry.

The New Fascism Syllabus: Networked Knowledge in the Digital Public Sphere

This article analyzes the New Fascism Syllabus private Facebook discussion group, which came into being in the months following the 2016 US presidential election. Through the use of several scraping, data mining, and visualization programs and Facebook’s own platform analytics software, the article posits ways we might analyze Facebook fora as a mediated digital public sphere. It argues that digital spaces like these, however fraught, help users craft arguments and points of contention around how to oppose resurgent authoritarianism. Online discussion creates affective communities that help bond participants, who in turn shape the construction of popular memory around the history and legacy of fascism.

Contramapas del Camino. Memorias del habitar

El siguiente artículo pone de manifiesto la importancia de educar en el contexto y en la vida en común para la construcción de una memoria colectiva, restableciendo los vínculos identitarios, preservando el pasado de nuestras comunidades y reformulando el presente. A través del proyecto educativo Contramapas del Camino. Memorias del habitar llevado a cabo en diferentes contextos rurales pertenecientes al Camino de Santiago, se proponen una serie de acciones y metodologías artísticas que implican a los habitantes en los procesos de recuperación de la memoria vinculada a estos lugares. Este proyecto, desarrollado desde el Departamento de Didáctica de la Expresión Plástica de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, forma parte del programa O teu Xacobeo impulsado y financiado por la Xunta de Galicia. El objetivo principal es el de potenciar y hacer más visible el papel de la Educación Artística y de los procesos creativos como herramientas de análisis en el desarrollo de propuestas interdisciplinares. Los paneles presentados como Cartografías de la Memoria Popular sintetizan la documentación gráfico-visual generada a partir de los diferentes talleres y de las producciones y narrativas analizadas. The following article highlights the importance of educating in the context and in common life for the construction of a collective memory, reestablishing identity bonds, preserving the past of our communities and reformulating the present. Through the educational project Contramapas del Camino. Memories of the way of living, carried out in different rural contexts belonging to the Camino de Santiago, we propose a series of artistic actions and methodologies that involve the inhabitants in the processes of recovery of memory linked to these places. This project, developed by the Didactics of Visual Expression Department of the University of Santiago de Compostela, is part of the O teu Xacobeo programme promoted and financed by the Xunta de Galicia. The main objective is to empower and make more visible the role of Artistic Education and creative processes as tools of analysis in the development of interdisciplinary proposals. The panels presented as Cartografías de la Memoria Popular (Cartographies of Popular Memory), synthesize the graphic-visual documentation generated from the different workshops and from the productions and narratives analyzed.

We Are Not Going Back: Migrant Music as the New Folk Music of Italy

This article concerns the “Roma Forestiera” project that has been carried out for the last ten years by the independent Circolo Gianni Bosio organization, which is devoted to the study of popular memory, folk song, and oral history. The author describes the experiences gathered while recording witnesses to history on the streets and in the migrant centres.