Organizations commonly regard memories of pain and destruction as being unwanted. In this article, we consider the largely undertheorized potential that painful pasts can have for building a mnemonic community. We draw primarily on oral history interviews to explore how Martin Litton and Grand Canyon Dories use sensory, discursive, and material-discursive modalities to convert painful memories into mnemonic resources through the performance of three practices: sensitizing, retelling, and reincarnating. Their aim was to protect the Grand Canyon for future generations. We advance research on organizational uses of the past by theorizing how painful memories can be converted into mnemonic resources. Specifically, we underscore the untapped potential of organizations repackaging history-at-large to curate experiences of the past using combinations of semiotic modalities and remembering practices. We call this multimodal remembering. We also contribute to research on place by illustrating how destroyed natural wonders that no longer exist in their geological corporeal form can be transposed across time and space and become re-embodied in new phantasmatic forms.

组织通常认为痛苦和破坏的回忆是不需要的。在本文中，我们考虑了痛苦的过去在建立助记符社区方面可能具有的理论不足。我们主要通过口述历史访谈来探讨马丁·里顿和大峡谷迪斯如何通过以下三种做法的表现来实现感官，话语和物质干扰的方式，将痛苦的记忆转换为记忆的资源：敏化，重提和转生。他们的目的是为后代保护大峡谷。我们通过理论化如何将痛苦的记忆转换为记忆资源来推进对过去组织用途的研究。特别，我们强调了组织利用符号学方法和记忆练习的组合来重新包装整个历史以整理过去的经验的未开发潜力。我们称这种多模式记忆。我们还通过说明如何以时空转换在地理上有形形态不再存在的被破坏的自然奇观，并以新的幻象形式重新体现，为地方研究做出了贡献。