In Order to Extract the Memory It Is Of Course Necessary to Build the Room

Susana Plotts-Pineda

There should be a special name for the kind of rigorous, genre-defying work straddling the future of memory and the past of futurity. Bursting at the seams with lyrical invention and speculative possibilities, In Order to Extract the Memory It Is Of Course Necessary to Build the Room traces connections between empire; the techno-military-industrial complex; vulcanology (here standing in for geopolitics and attempts to control social unrest); museology, and memory studies. —Mónica de la Torre