Cycle 14 · 21 Oct 2025The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-NazificationHalbwachs
Appears in 9 videos · 13 passages, 7 of them in depth.
Summary
Dominique Pagani cites Maurice Halbwachs for a single work, Les Cadres sociaux de la mémoire (The Social Frameworks of Memory), and presents him as a forgotten sociologist. What he takes from it is that memory does not belong only to the psychological or biological field. It is overdetermined and social, and depends on collective relays external to the body1. Memory is not a report of what really happened: we retain what the press and others take up, and forgetting can be induced2. Whatever has no social, media or school relay to recall it disappears3. From 2022 on, he applies this thesis to current events: the war in Ukraine, Niger, the silence about the Congo4. He also notes that history, known to specialists, is not passed on by the social frameworks of memory. In 2025, he makes the book a model for rearranging the frameworks of memory against the collective amnesia maintained by the media, notably regarding the D-Day landings5.
- 1#10.6 War and peace: “The death drives advance in silence…” (Freud)8 Dec 2021 · 50:57
- 2#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)24 Mar 2022 · 34:06
- 3The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-Nazification21 Oct 2025 · 44:30
- 4For a “fresh and joyful” apocalypse?24 Jun 2024 · 26:05
- 5On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens6 Feb 2025 · 5:40
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Who is this?Maurice Halbwachs (French:; 11 March 1877 – 16 March 1945) was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory. Halbwachs also contributed to the sociology of knowledge with his La Topographie Legendaire des Évangiles en Terre Sainte, a study of the spatial infrastructure of the New Testament (1951).
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Cycle 14 · 21 Oct 2025The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-Nazification
Cycle 13 · 6 Feb 2025On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens
Cycle 12 · 14 Aug 2024Too late?- 34:57The Social Frameworks of MemoryWhat is never spoken of eventually disappears from memory: memory has social frameworks.
Cycle 12 · 24 Jun 2024For a “fresh and joyful” apocalypse?
Cycle 10 · 24 Mar 2022#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)
Cycle 10 · 8 Dec 2021#10.6 War and peace: “The death drives advance in silence…” (Freud)- 50:57The Social Frameworks of MemoryHer study shows that memory cannot be reduced to the biological: it is overdetermined and social.
Cycle 6 · 3 Dec 2019#6.2 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 4:07The Social Frameworks of MemoryForgotten sociologist who shows that memory depends on collective relays and sociological factors, not only on the psychological field.
Cycle 11 · 7 Aug 2023Niger special: should we “blacken the corpses”?- 15:23The Social Frameworks of MemoryHis title says that memory is a social matter: what the media do not emphasize leaves no trace.
Cycle 11 · 3 Mar 2023War, neo-fascism: libertarian liberalism- 43:46The Social Frameworks of MemoryWhat has no social relay to be recalled disappears from memory.