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    The Battle Is Joined — Monument Lab
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    1. jmadley 23 Apr 2020
      The ability to see oneself in the monument would lead us to consider the piece as a living/breathing monument that is not static or staid, but as one that reflects today’s America and our current political and social moment. Monuments are established with the assumption that we as a nation have collectively decided that something should be remembered, honored, and celebrated.

      Karyn Oliver confirms the idea that a monument can reflect the viewer's beliefs and values. I think she is challenging the idea of collective memory here by saying "monuments are established wth the assumption that we as a nation have collectively decided..." She thinks that not all people have equal power to shape societal narratives, so the monuments are often one sided and not as "collective" as they may seem.

    2. jmadley 23 Apr 2020
      As Olivier stated, “My reinterpretation of the Battle of Germantown Memorial will ask the monument to serve as a conductor of sorts. It will transport, transmit, express, and literally reflect the landscape, people, and activities that surround it. We will be reminded that this memorial can be an instrument and we, too, are instruments—the keepers and protectors of the monument, and in that role, sometimes we become the very monument itself.”

      This shows that Karyn Oliver believes that the monument is a reflection of both the society that creates it, and the viewer's on experiences and beliefs. This is expressed very literally in The Battle Is Joined as it is reflective.

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    2. jmadley 22 Apr 2020
      marketing and media shove imagination more and more toward pri­vate life and private satisfaction, as citizens are redefined as consum­ers, as public participation falters and with it any sense of collective or individual political power, as even the language for public emotions and satisfactions withers.

      This shows how the media and corporations are telling one story about how people should live their lives in order to sell products, but we are not seeing the other side of the story which is that public participation as also benificial and leadsto happiness.

    4. jmadley 22 Apr 2020
      But belief lags behind, and often the worst behavior in the wake of a calamity is on the part of those who believe that others will behave savagely and that they themselves are taking defensive measures against barbarism. From earthquake-shattered San Francisco in 1906 to flooded New Orleans in 2005, innocents have been killed by people who believed or asserted that their victims were the criminals and they themselves were the protectors of the shaken order.

      When we only see one side to the story, it creates prejudice and bias, as in New Orleans after Katrina. If more people had seen more than one side to the story of the poor communities who had been neglected after the hurricane, they would have not been afraid of them or seen the need to contain them, and they would have treated them more like humans.

    5. jmadley 22 Apr 2020
      Hundreds ofpeople died in the aftermath of Katrina because others, including police,1'Vigilantes, high government officials, and the media, decided that thepeople of New Orleans were too dangerous to allow then1 to evacuate theptic, drowned city or to rescue them, even from hospitals. Some who tempted to flee were turned back at gunpoint or shot down

      This shows how powerful a narrative story can be. People who had the power to save lives did not always do so because of what they thought was true, which was the perspective of those in power, not the poor communities which were hurt the most in the hurricane.

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