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Cleansing Personal Archives and the Birth of the Black Hole of Collective Memory
Elaheh
In the early days when the uprising was in its passionate phase (if we consider its current stage as the depressive phase), a strange thing would happen to the protestors. We devotees of the revolution were all dreaming of love and love-making. Dead or unknown lovers came to us in our dreams so we could make love to them. We would wake up in the morning, and by that night, based on our respective time zones, narratives of our dreams would surface. An analyst said to one of the dreamers: “Dreaming of love signals hope.”
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 6, 2024
Category
Feminism
Subjects
Iran, Middle East, Protests & Demonstrations, Social Media