Abstract
The article examines the emerging field of reenactment studies. Three key components of reenactment are analyzed: the political, cultural and cognitive. It is proved that the latter is extremely poorly reflected in reenactment studies, which borrow from popular culture the leveling of any oppositions, including the opposition of “high” and “low”, “professional” science and “popular” opinion. It is the weak demand for the cognitive component, combined with the playful nature of popular culture, that determines the uncertainty of temporal boundaries both in historical reconstruction itself and in reenactment studies, which maximally equate the researcher with participants in reconstruction practices. Next, a comparative analysis of the methodological settings of reconstruction and memory studies is carried out. The main thesis of the article is to prove the multidirectionality of their temporal settings: memory studies seek to clarify the boundaries between past and present, and reenactment studies seek to use and aesthetically play up their uncertainty. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.
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