A History of Nothing w/ Susan A. Crane (E88)

This is a conversation with Susan A. Crane, author of the book “Nothing Happened: A History“Topics Discussed:How do people think of the past?What does Nothing even mean?Four expressions of historical consciousness:1- Nothing Happened2- Nothing is the Way it Was3- Nothing has Changed4- Nothing is LeftHow far away does the past have to be before being considered the past?What the past says about the presentThe examples of Germany, Chile, the USA, Spain and LebanonWhen histories become ruinOn biographies and ‘great men’On ‘objectivity’ and ‘neutrality’ in historyResources mentioned:Why Man Creates by Saul BassThe Death of Luigi Trastulli: Memory and the Event. Form and Meaning in Oral History by Alessandro PortelliNostalgia for the light by Patricio GuzmánHistory and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige by Rea TajiriThe mnemonic imagination by Emily Keightley and Michael PickeringWhy Did Ozu Cut To A Vase? by NerdwriterRecommended BooksIn Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha DugdaleThe Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny by Susan LepselterWayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya HartmanA History of Silence: From the Renaissance to the Present Day by Alain Corbin