Abstract
This chapter explores how cultural memory—in this case, the recent history of Western fashion—is performed and mediated by techno-fashion. Drawing on cultural studies and sociological and anthropological approaches, this chapter aims at unraveling the innovative connection between clothing, memory, and technology instigated by techno-fashion. We first focus on fashion’s relation to time and history, then explore techno-fashion as a particular performance and technology of memory, and finish by discussing the particular force of technology’s as well as fashion’s materialism. We advance the concept of ‘softness’ as a material and aesthetic category at the intersection of technology, materiality, and memory.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture |
| Editors | László Munteán, Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 5 |
| Pages | 89-105 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-315-47217-1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-138-20323-5 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 |