The Game Is the Memory: Prosthetic Witnessing in Digitalen Spielen Als Erinnerungsmedien Um Den Holocaust (Formen der Erinnerung, 76)

by Tabea Widmann

Tabea Widmann dedicates this work to digital games as media of remembrance around the Holocaust and examines them as particularly potentially powerful media of digitalised memory cultures. Within the book, the concept of "Prosthetic Witnessing" is developed; an approach that understands playful actions as mediated positions of a medialised-distanced, yet emotionally involving, form of witnessing. Based on four selected case studies, "Prosthetic Witnessing" already finds its first applications in the work with a focus on figures of testimony, the staging of places of remembrance as well as the handling of depicted media of memory.

281 pages, Hardcover

Published September 4, 2023