INTERVIEW
Interview with
Andreas Huyssen
Trumpism as a social movement is a new form of fascism
Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and an essential reference in the field of memory studies . His work has been translated into several languages and counts with such important books as Twilight Memories : Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia ( 1995 ), Present Pasts : Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory ( 2003 ) or William Kentridge , Nalini Malani : The Shadowplay as Medium of Memory ( 2013 ). In the following pages we talk with him about his career , about concepts like “ urban palimpsests ” but we specially deal with the current situation in the USA , the effectivity of the memory to face the extreme right , the relationship between art and memory ( and its potentialities ) or the current iconoclasm linked with colonial and slaver statues , among other actuality issues .
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