Maps a genealogy of post-socialist and translocal media-art discourse—from Gorbachev-era linguistic desire and NSK/Laibach’s subversive affirmation to network culture (Syndicate) and the politics of discourse—arguing that over-identification and distributed infrastructures can resist the late-capitalist recuperation of critique. Reframes contemporary temporality through retro-utopianism, media archaeology, and re-enactment as methods for reactivating “past potential futures,” reopening access to traumatic or occluded histories, and exposing how memory, authorship, and technological imaginaries are continuously mediated, contested, and re-legibilized.

Stages a collision between Holocaust memory, contemporary fascist resurgence, and privatized mental health, arguing that remembrance has become an administered form of affective labor whose archives are structurally vulnerable to commodification, forgetting, and political reversal (Derrida, Agamben, Sontag). Through memorial architecture, family silence, and art-market spectacle, it critiques nationalism as trauma-management and proposes a fraught dialectic of remembering/forgetting as the ethical work of subjectivity in late capitalism’s camp-like political space.