A World Without a Present

When History Creates Its Own Demise and Oblivion

Srebrenica Genocide Memorial or Srebrenica–Potočari Memorial, picture taken on July 27, 2017. Photographer: Jelle Visser

On July 24, 2021, a tweet by Julie Haviland excited my mind and since then, its ending has not ceased to haunt me: “It is fashionable to say that we are in a society that erases history, that no longer knows its past. Personally I th…