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Critique of collective guilt narratives in European historical memory politics

📰 Original title: La culpa inducida

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#opinion #collectiveguilt #historicalmemory

30 June | Hul Diwas—Honouring the courage, sacrifice, and enduring legacy of the Santhal Uprising. #HulDiwas #SanthalUprising #IndigenousHistory #Adivasi #HistoricalMemory

৩০ জুন | হুল দিবসে সাঁওতাল হুলের বীর শহিদ ও সংগ্রামী ঐতিহ্যের প্রতি গভীর শ্রদ্ধা। #হুলদিবস #সাঁওতালহুল #আদিবাসী #ইতিহাস #সংগ্রাম

30 جون | ہول دیوس پر سنتھال ہول کے شہداء، جدوجہد اور تاریخی ورثے کو خراجِ عقیدت۔ #ہول_دیوس #سنتھال_ہول #آدیواسی #تاریخ #جدوجہد

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html

#HackerNews #historicalmemory #memoryprices #dataanalysis #techhistory #economics

Hey, Dumbass — You’re Supposed to Be Paying Attention

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — June 6, 2026, 07:00 PHST

This Is Not Subtle, and It Isn’t New

Let’s dispense with politeness. What’s happening right now is not complicated, mysterious, or “algorithmic fate.” It is willful inattention trained into people over years.

For more than two years, WPS News has published sustained, sourced, historically grounded analysis on authoritarian drift, economic precarity, geopolitics, and institutional failure. The work is not fringe. It is not speculative. It is not vibes. And yet it is routinely ignored—across the United States, the EU, and even here in the Philippines.

That isn’t an accident. It’s learned behavior.

The Internet Trained You to Stop Thinking

The modern internet does not exist to inform you. It exists to manage you.

Platforms reward:

• emotional reflex instead of judgment
• speed instead of accuracy
• tribal signaling instead of synthesis
• repetition instead of memory

Anything that requires sustained attention, historical context, or second-order thinking is quietly pushed aside. Not banned. Not censored. Just ignored.

That’s worse.

Silence Is Not Neutral — It’s Cowardice with a UX

When peers, professionals, or “informed” readers say nothing, it’s tempting to assume disagreement. Most of the time, it’s simpler than that: they don’t want the responsibility that comes with understanding.

Engaging seriously with analysis means:

• admitting prior assumptions were wrong
• acknowledging complicity
• accepting that problems are structural, not personal
• recognizing that fixes are costly and uncomfortable

So people scroll. Silence becomes a lifestyle choice.

Younger Generations Aren’t Stupid — They’re Drowned

This is not a generational insult. It’s an observation.

Many younger readers are trapped in survival mode: debt, insecure work, housing stress, constant alerts, infinite feeds. When life feels unstable, long-range analysis feels abstract—even when it directly explains why life is unstable.

That doesn’t make the analysis wrong. It means the system is hostile to understanding.

The Death of Judgment as a Social Skill

Once upon a time, judgment was learned—through mentorship, institutions, and consequence. That pipeline is gone.

The internet flattened authority but replaced it with volatility. Experience is treated as irrelevance. Memory is framed as nostalgia. Long-view thinking is labeled elitism.

The result is a culture that reacts constantly and understands nothing.

This Isn’t an American Problem. It’s a Human One.

The same disengagement appears everywhere: the U.S., Europe, Southeast Asia, the Philippines. Different politics, same pattern.

If information doesn’t flatter, reassure, or entertain, it is filtered out—not by governments alone, but by habits cultivated over years of platform design.

People will later claim they “never saw this coming.” The archive will prove otherwise.

Being Ignored Does Not Mean Being Wrong

History is unkind to the argument that relevance equals immediacy.

Work that documents corruption, names power honestly, and refuses spectacle is often ignored until events force recognition. Archives exist for that reason.

WPS News is not built for dopamine. It is built for record.

Read or Don’t — But Stop Pretending This Is Invisible

The information is there. The connections are there. The patterns are obvious to anyone willing to look longer than a scroll.

If you choose not to pay attention, that’s your right. But stop pretending ignorance is imposed on you.

You were warned. Repeatedly.

For more social commentary, please see Occupy 2.5 at https://Occupy25.com

This article will be archived as part of the ongoing WPS News Monthly Brief Series available through Amazon.

References

Carr, N. (2020). The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. W. W. Norton & Company.
Zuboff, S. (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. PublicAffairs.
Postman, N. (1985). Amusing Ourselves to Death. Viking Penguin.

A Day for the World to Say Sorry

From Australia’s National Sorry Day Toward an International Day of Truth, Repentance, and Repair

A PeaceGrooves Reflection

There are words so overused that they risk becoming weightless. Sorry is one of them. We say it when we bump into someone in a hallway, when we answer an email too late, when we make an insignificant mistake. Yet there are times when sorry is not small at all. There are wounds so deep, so deliberately inflicted, and so long denied that the speaking of sorrow becomes an act of public truth.

Australia’s National Sorry Day, observed each year on May 26, is such a day. It remembers the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families, communities, languages, and cultures under government policies now associated with the Stolen Generations. The date marks the anniversary of the 1997 tabling of the Bringing Them Home report, the landmark national inquiry that gathered testimony from survivors and documented the devastation caused by these removals. The report called not only for recognition of what had happened, but for apology, healing, reparations, family reunion, access to records, and measures ensuring such violations would never recur.

National Sorry Day did not begin as a sentimental holiday….

Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.

Untapped Cities examines Evacuation Day, a once-major New York City holiday that commemorated the British departure on November 25, 1783. The article explores how this significant Revolutionary War milestone gradually faded from public memory and what it reveals about how cities choose which historical moments to remember and celebrate.
#NYCHistory #RevolutionaryWar #EvacuationDay #AmericanHistory #HistoricalMemory #NewYork
https://www.untappedcities.com/evacuation-day-new-york-citys-forgotten-november-holiday-2/

⚠️ The call for paper proposls for the thematic issue of Twentieth Century Communism, ‘History, Memory and the Past in Twentieth Century Communism’ edited by Giulia Strippoli and José Neves, closes on 31st December.

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/cfp-tcc-2025/

#Histodons #Communism #Historiography #CallForPapers #CFP #HistoricalMemory #Marxism #UsesOfThePast #ChamadaParaArtigos #Comunismo #Marxismo #Historiografia

Video en español

ENG: This video illustrates US military interventions in Latin America marked by coups, dictatorships, and wars that benefited US Corporate economic and geopolitical interests at the cost of millions of lives.

From Guatemala in 1954, where the CIA overthrew an elected president to protect the multinational United Fruit Company, to the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, the pattern repeats itself: popular or reformist governments replaced by military dictatorships backed by Washington to secure foreign investment and control of resources.

In Central America, support for the Contras in Nicaragua and the Salvadoran army—including death squads—prolonged wars that left tens of thousands dead and missing. In the Southern Hemisphere, support for authoritarian regimes and the coordination of Plan Condor institutionalized torture and political assassination on a continental scale.

These are just a few examples. For decades, the United States acted as if Latin America were its backyard, building its economic hegemony on the exploitation of citizens and leaving behind a history of violence, chaos, and suffering that still marks the region today.

Research sources: foreignpolicy.com, educacao.uol.com.br, foreignaffairs.com, Cato Institute, University of Ecuador, thenationalpolicy.com, El Pais, peacehistory-usfp.org, congress.gov,

#trump2 #TrumpDictatorship
#neocolonialism #authoritarianism
#corporategreed #corporatecrime
#LatinAmericanHistory #Interventionism #LatinAmerica #Imperialism #Venezuela #HumanRights #HistoricalMemory #InternationalPolitics

Maria Lurdes Rosa e Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa (na foto) apresentaram o projecto de #CiênciaCidadã "Memória migrante: arquivos de comunidades de migrantes e refugiados em Portugal" no Encontro Nacional de Ciência Cidadã 2025, que decorreu em Oeiras sob o mote "Comunidades, Equidade, Justiça Social".

📷 @JFLMonteiro

#Histodons #CitizenScience #Archives #Migrants #Refugees #HistoricalMemory #Migrantes #Refugiados #Arquivos #MemóriaHistórica #SocialHistory #HistóriaSocial

✍️ Giulia Strippoli and José Neves will edit a thematic issue of the journal Twentieth Century Communism: “History, Memory, and the Past in Twentieth Century Communism.”

📅 Article proposals must be submitted by 31 December 2025.

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/cfp-tcc-2025/

#Histodons #Communism #Historiography #CallForPapers #CFP #HistoricalMemory #Marxism #UsesOfThePast #ChamadaParaArtigos #Comunismo #Marxismo #Historiografia

Na sexta-feira, 24 de Outubro, o Museu do Aljube vai acolher o primeiro evento público do projecto #GRASSROOTS:

a mesa-redonda "Memórias Militantes da Revolução", que procura recuperar memórias do quotidiano revolucionário, das rotinas da militância e dos pormenores da aprendizagem política.

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/memorias-militantes-revolucao/

#Histodons #HistoricalMemory #25April1974 #PREC #MemóriaHistórica #OralHistory #HistóriaOral #PortugueseRevolution #Revolução #GrassrootsMovements #50Anos25Abril #25deAbril

“Why ‘Hitler’ Keeps Coming Up in American Politics” explores the phenomenon of figures across the political spectrum resorting to comparisons to Hitler and Nazism during heated debates. However, it raises concerns about the potential consequences of such comparisons on truth, memory, and the possibility of compromise.

Read more → https://readbitz.com/why-hitler-keeps-coming-up-in-american-politics/
#PoliticalRhetoric #USPolitics #HistoricalMemory #FreeSpeech #Discourse

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Ukraine takes ‘effective measures’ to stop Russian infiltration near Dobropillia, Pokrovsk — How Ukraine is building a system of returning, reintegrating, and protecting children abducted by Russia — How Ukraine is building a system of returning, reintegrating, and protecting children abducted by Russia — We went to hell and back to achieve this result: SBU chief on Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb strike on Russian bombers … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/wednesday-august-13-2025/

📙 A nova edição do livro "Memórias da Resistência Rural no Sul – Couço (1958-1962)", uma referência de Paula Godinho, vai ser apresentada na aldeia que lhe deu origem — o Couço — no dia 26 de Julho.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/memorias-resistencia-rural-couco/

#Histodons #MastoLivros #Livros #Couço #EstadoNovo #Resistência #MastoBooks #Books #Anthropology #HistoricalMemory #Antropologia #MemóriaHistórica #Resistance #RuralHistory #HistóriaRural #Ribatejo

🆕 How can we study and preserve ephemeral cultural manifestations, such as an experimental theatre piece, a performance or the new dance? This is the challenge that the #RESONANCE project, coordinated by Hélia Marçal, will embrace. 🙌

👉 Find out more: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/resonance-project/

@histodons
@histodon

#Histodons #PerformingArts #Performance #Epistemology #CulturalStudies #Arts #PerformanceBasedArt #PortugueseRevolution #ArtisticPractices #HistoricalMemory #Artes #25deAbril #EstudosCulturais

📕 Paula Godinho comparte la coordinación del libro "Resistencia juvenil, dictaduras y políticas de memoria. A 50 años del asesinato de José António Ribeiro Santos" con Miguel Cardina y Pablo Pozzi.

🔓 Disponible en #AccesoAbierto: https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=4220&c=5

#Histodons #Anthropodons #Resistencia #Resiatance #HistoricalMemory #MemoriaHistorica #Dictatorships #Dictaduras #Ditaduras #EstadoNovo #RibeiroSantos #OpenAccess #AcessoAberto #MastoBooks #MastoLivros #MastoLibros

🖥️ A apresentação de Joana Matias no congresso "A Memoria Diversa", sobre a história Queer em Portugal no século XX, está disponível no canal YouTube da Deputación da Coruña.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeAZHUIu43w

@histodons
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#Histodons #QueerHistory #QueerPortugal #LGBTQIA #PrideMonth #Orgulho #HistóriaQueer #Queer #LGBTStudies #HistoricalMemory #MemóriaHistórica #MemóriaQueer

Today, May 8, 2025. On May 8, 1945, let us not forget the massacre that took place in Sétif, Guelma, and Kherrata, where over 45,000 Algerians were killed.

They took to the streets to demand a free and independent Algeria, and France did not hesitate to commit these atrocities.

رحمهم الله 🇩🇿

#SetifMassacre #NeverForget #AlgerianHistory #May8 #Guelma #Kherrata #IndependenceStruggle #Algeria #HistoricalMemory #Algerie #الجزائر #8mai #8mai1945 #8ماي

🆕 Congratulations to Giulia Strippoli, whose SMS - Shared Memories of Solidarity project has been selected for funding by FCT under the RESTART programme. 🤩

👉 More details about the project: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/giulia-strippoli-restart-sms/

@histodons
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#Histodons #ScienceFunding #Solidarity #Resistance #EstadoNovo #OralHistory #VisualArts #CulturalStudies #HistoricalMemory #Solidariedade #HistóriaOral #ArtesVisuais #Resistência #EstudosCulturais #RESTART #FinanciamentoCientífico #CiênciaPT

📙 A nova edição do livro "Memórias da Resistência Rural no Sul – Couço (1958-1962)", uma referência de Paula Godinho, vai ser lançada no dia 10 de Abril, no Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade, com apresentação de Diana Andringa e Margarida David Cardoso.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/memorias-resistencia-rural-lx/

#Histodons #MastoLivros #CulturaEmLisboa #Couço #EstadoNovo #Resistência #MastoBooks #Anthropology #HistoricalMemory #Antropologia #MemóriaHistórica #MuseuDoAljube #50Anos25Abril

📰 A revista Visão desta semana inclui um ensaio de José Neves integrado no segmento especial dedicado aos 500 anos da morte de Vasco da Gama. Disponível nas bancas e online:

https://visao.pt/atualidade/sociedade/2024-12-11-vasco-da-gama-o-homem-que-mudou-o-mundo/

#HistóriaNaEsferaPública #Histodons #HistoryOnTheMedia #HistoryInThePublicSphere #VascoDaGama #ComemoraçõesHistóricas #Ideologia #HistoricalCommemorations #Ideology #MemóriaHistórica #HistoricalMemory

No contexto do seu projecto #LUARC, Elisa Scaraggi publicou uma conversa com Manuel Videira — sobre Mário Pinto de Andrade, as suas memórias e a sua militância no MPLA — no Buala.

É o excerto de duas entrevistas realizadas em Lisboa, em 2023.

https://www.buala.org/pt/vou-la-visitar/sao-os-intelectuais-que-no-fundo-dirigem-mesmo-as-revolucoes-mais-populosas-conversa-

#Histodons #LitStudies #MárioPintoDeAndrade #Angola #MPLA #ManuelVieira #MemóriaHistórica #HistoricalMemory #Angola #GuerraColonial #LiberationStruggle

A segunda visita que promovemos no âmbito da Semana da Ciência e Tecnologia será "dialogada" com a Sofia Lisboa e tem como cenário o Museu Nacional Resistência e Liberdade (Fortaleza de Peniche).

Sob o mote, "Para que nos servem as memórias?", está agendada para sexta-feira, 22 de Novembro, às 14h.

ℹ️ +info e inscrições: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/para-servem-memorias/

#SemanaCT #CiênciaViva #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #50Anos25Abril #HistoryInThePublicSphere #MemóriaHistórica #HistoricalMemory #SciComm #SciComPT

The international colloquium ‘Spaces of Confinement: Memories of Repression and Coloniality’, which runs until 30 October, will soon begin at the National Library of Portugal.

On 29 and 30 October, it will be hosted by the Aljube Museum.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/spaces-confinement-2024/

@histodons
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#Histodons #Colonialism #ConcentrationCamps #PoliticalPrisons #HistoricalMemory #Colonialismo #CamposDeConcentração #PrisõesPolíticas #MemóriaHistórica #CampForm #FormaCampo #Incarceration #Encarceramento