Remaking memory and the agency of the aesthetic

This article examines the role of creative arts in renegotiating border between memorable and unmemorable lives. It does so with specific reference to (un)forgetting colonial soldiers European armies during World War One. Focussing on aesthetic form generating memorability, it shows how use a medium can help redefine borders imagined communities by commanding attention individual subjects hence providing conditions for cognitive affective opening memory strangers. concludes that future studies transformations collective should take multiscalar approach which takes into account both shifting social frameworks small changes occur micro-politics viewing reading.