https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Should-the-statues-of-great-men-be-pulled-down https://booksandideas.net/Should-the-statues-of-great-men-be-pulled-down 2023-09-05T10:16:23Z text/html en Arnaud Exbalin History politics of memory Cairn.info <p>We thought they were mute and asleep; now they are waking up and starting to talk. In the torpid summer of 2020, dozens of statues of great men around the world had paint splashed on them, were sprayed with graffiti, had limbs amputated or were destroyed. The historian Jacqueline Lalouette investigates.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Such-Beautiful-Debris https://booksandideas.net/Such-Beautiful-Debris 2023-02-16T08:03:00Z text/html en Géraldine Sfez Arts History politics of memory memory architecture Cairn.info <p>In his monumental history of ruins, Alain Schnapp gives an account of the multiple ways to resist oblivion, both material and immaterial. Ruins are not so much objects as processes implemented by societies in order to contemplate their place in history.</p>