Connerton talks about incorporating (eg. handshake) vs inscribing practices — ways of sitting; also choreography of the body and authority in cultures.

“When the memories of a culture begin to be transmitted mainly by the reproduction of their inscriptions rather than by ‘live’ tellings, improvisation becomes increasingly difficult and innovation is institutionalised.”

Hersh begins with Spiegelman’s comic The First Maus (1972), further explores themes present in Maus — post memorial transmission, individuating the story.

On postmemory and photographs: quotes Roland Barthes’ “umbilical cord”, joining the viewer and the subject through need, desire, and narrative projection.

• how the punctum [subjective] can travel and be displaced between images