On memory and post-truth

Abstract

Facing an idea of post-truth, “post” as meaning to be beyond something, that signifies spatial distance, to go beyond the unrepresentable, this article means to understand the built memory around a constructed truth over a picture of a colonial priest also my great-grandfather of my Cape Verdean family, questioning the regime of truth in which it was made and the relationship within the truth production context. Taking this figure as a pretext to analyse the processes of memory, history and representation, it’s meant to understand an idea of truth.

Keywords

• colonialism
• representation
• memory
• history
• regime of truth