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Régis Debray: "From museums to missiles, from the cult of memories to the return of history"

2022-03-09T18:52:18.581Z


TRIBUNE - "War is when history starts up again," notes the mediologist. The generation of baby boomers thought they were done with history and preferred the cult of memories, but now they are making a spectacular comeback in Europe. With the incisive pen...


Do not panic.

That's always how things go.

War is when history starts moving again.

Peace is when the arts of memory dominate.

War and peace.

It alternates.

Diastole, laissez-faire, systole, we clench our fists and rows.

Societies also have a beating heart.

Everything happens as if the summer holidays were going to have to end in Europe, that we were leaving the memory regime to tackle,

once again

, the history regime.

There is a time for everything.

For heritage and for arsenals.

For the museum and for the missile.

The passage from one to the other is always disconcerting, but the European has enough experience not to be surprised by the change of phase, and of foot.

• When the soldier goes back to the economist

It's not yet the big somersault, but the order to mobilize is already there.

And so, we sound the end of recess.

Everything in the ego no longer rules, the we is reconstituted, mute on the me-I.

Alliances close, and therefore reform.

One…

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Source: lefigaro

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