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The article reviews the book "Sociology of Memory: Papers From the Spectrum," edited by Noel Packard.

With unfolding image events following the 2014 presidential election, Strassler ends this book by saying that democratisation in Indonesia remains "eventful and unfinished" (p. 246). Arguing against the idea that these publicly circulating images are mere epiphenomenal noises, Karen Strassler's ethnography I Demanding Images i seeks to understand Indonesia's democratisation through the lens of contesting images in the country's media environment. However, there is a lack of justification as to why Strassler chose to feature these specific image events in this book, considering that Indonesia is deluged with a plethora of democracy-related image events. [Extracted from the article]

Lingiardi suggests how we can look at a landscape as part of the real world but also "as a mirror of our emotions, as a space of sensorial immersion" (p. 17). Lingiardi enables the reader to extract the essence of the environment and assemble vast internal landscapes. The author recalls the numerous postcards of landscapes he has collected through the years, which have become "silent images hidden in the pages of a book or in a box" (p. 16). In his final remarks, Lingiardi observes that the landscape is a window of the psyche into the world. [Extracted from the article]