Monuments Functioning as Collective Memory

In our contemporary culture, there is this obsession with the endless scrawl. And so i am interested in the relationship between the singularity of these microforms as well as their collectivity in its aggregate form. You also talk about monuments functioning as collective memory. What do you mean by that? There is a french historian theorist called pierre nora, and he has this idea of a ler de memoir, or a places of memory, sights of memory. Whatever a culture values the most, they built monuments to,. Think of the middle ages. It was the church, right? A every european capital you go to, dab in the centre, are these towering monuments to god