There are undoubtedly historical settings that might require very specific casting (though the erasure of people of colour from the historical narratives of films such as Suffragette is grating).
"There's a lot of erasure, even though it was only 40 years ago," she says.
"Even though her images are about erasure and absence and loss, they make you think about renewal".
Its title and guiding metaphor, though, come from the aftermath: the systematic erasure of the event from public consciousness as the hardliners in the government consolidated their victory.
"Progress," though, should be something more nuanced than erasure.
As Westworld begins, new lines of programming are causing host memories to multiply, even though the hosts go through a nightly memory erasure.
As a result, to write about the fate of Palmyra is a questionable business: it risks encouraging Isis to commit more media-friendly outrages; to ignore it, though, is to collude with Isis in its erasure of history and memory.
Though effectively pointed on its own, in the context of this exhibition that erasure seems the sign of a broader reluctance to imagine more fully what capital punishment is all about.
Often overt, though at times subtle, heterosexism is oppression by neglect, omission, erasure and distortion, and also by intent, purpose and design (Blumenfeld 2000, 2010).
Rather, assimilation first requires refuting assumptions the culture makes about the immigrant based on race, and in this sense assimilation requires the erasure of one's preexisting cultural identity even though that identity wasn't contingent upon race in the first place.
