Anamnesis means remembrance or reminiscence, the collection and re-collection of what has been lost, forgotten, or effaced. It is therefore a matter of…what has made us who we are. But anamnesis is also a work that transforms its subject, always producing something new. To recollect the old, to produce the new: that is the task of Anamnesis. ... Why tie these philosophical observations down in an attempt to construct an alternative historiography? Ultimately, because in class society, history is indeed written by the victors (Winston Churchill). Those of us who seek a new world are thus obliged to undertake a continual process of disinterment, in order to both correct falsehoods and to unearth occulted fragments of the past, in the service of a future that will enable us to realise the unmediated, and live in an authentic present. 3ammagazine/3am/nostalgia-for-an-age-yet-to-come-2/
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