Abstract

On Paris’ Montmartre hill, the visitor is confronted by a puzzling number of padlocks, objects of reminiscence left by individuals on the surrounding railings. As individual acts of reminiscence, these padlocks are indifferent to the historicized design materiality and the discursive space of the basilica, which oscillates between manifestations of Catholic piety in late nineteenth-century France and a grim reminder of the disproportionate suppression of the Commune of 1871. Sacré-Coeur offers a framework for understanding the rhetorical function of the commemorative practices connected with Turkey’s authoritarian AKP regime and its new mosques. They similarly set up a paradox between the manifestations of an oppressive political rhetoric – expressed through a historicized architectural style – and the individually driven cultural responses they provoke. This essay examines the amalgamation of these design materialities and politics, which, it suggests, are open to reinterpretation through group and individual actions that alter the way people experience monuments.

摘要

在巴黎的蒙马特山上，游客会看到数量令人费解的挂锁，这些挂锁是人们在周围栏杆上留下的回忆物品。作为个人的回忆行为，这些挂锁对历史化的设计材料和大教堂的话语空间漠不关心，它在 19 世纪后期法国天主教虔诚的表现和对 1871 年公社不成比例的镇压的严峻提醒之间摇摆不定。圣心堂提供了一个框架，用于理解与土耳其威权的 AKP 政权及其新清真寺相关的纪念活动的修辞功能。他们同样在压迫性的政治言论的表现（通过历史化的建筑风格表达）与它们引发的个人驱动的文化反应之间建立了一个悖论。这篇文章考察了这些设计材料和政治的融合，它表明，通过改变人们体验纪念碑的方式的团体和个人行为，可以重新解释它们。