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in the latter case the interlocutor is performing for the apparatus (cinema), which then mediates the
performance to the audience. Translated into DME, a similar distinction emerges in performances
by the participants in online communication: all commentators perform for the apparatus:
SUFFiCE IT TO SAY: TITO!!!
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While many among them, those engaged in discussion (e.g. some of the bitter commentators
above), also perform for a more specific audience. As members of an on-the-fly community (of
remembering) they mainly direct their comments to one another (although also to all who happen
to surf by).
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Partisans Forever
Another case I would like to discuss in some detail is a digital memorial ―Azra-Partizan‖ made by
user xPartizani0zauvijekX. 292 The video description reads:
Uploaded by xPartizani0zauvijekX 5 February 2009
Mome djedu [For my Grandad]
R.I.P
21.3.1921-3.1.2009
Category:
Film and animation
Tags:
antifa partizani azra partizan antifascist red star hammer and sickle tito 293
This video offers a particularly interesting read on the both audiovisual and textual-commentary
levels. It is dedicated to the maker‘s grandfather and features a selection of photographs and
archival footage edited into a visually narrative. On the audio level, the video builds the story on
the song ―Partizan [The Partisan]‖ performed by the former Yugoslav band Azra, which is a cover
(indeed a thorough re-writing) of the WWII ―La complainte du partisan.‖ 294 The song became
increasingly famous when Leonard Cohen released the English version, ―The Partisan,‖ on his
1969 album Songs from a Room. It was then covered by numerous artists throughout the
remainder of the 20th century because of its celebration of the resistance against Nazi occupation
and more: it was the song epitomising leftist conceptualisation of resistance against any
292 XPartizani0zauvijekX, ―Azra-Partizan,‖ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOA_B11SjU, accessed 23 August
2010.
293 Ibid.
294 The song was written in London in 1943 by Emmanuel D‘Astier de la Vigérie and Anna Marly. See ―Song of the
French Partisan,‖ www.leonardcohensite.com/partisaneng.htm, accessed 23 August 2011.