Controversies and commemorations:
the
extreme right and the 2016 commemoration of the battle of
Verdun
Time and Emotion: Extreme Right Visions
of the Past
Frédéric Clavert /
C2DH, University of Luxembourg
8 Decembre 2022
The Centenary
- exceptional series of commemorations,
- social media
- intertwined layers of time
- high frequency circulation of information
- vibrations (Dominique Boullier)
- mechanisms that favors the expression of emotion
Commemorating Verdun
Two main commemorations:
- February 2016: “Saint Cyr” commemoration, ministry of Defence
- 29 May 2016 (Ossuaire de Douaumont)
- French-German
- two controversies
A cold memory?
Two different
controversies
(in terms of circulation of information)
The BlackM controversy
- Web
(far right website “François de souche” /
fdesouche.com)
- social media (Twitter)
- newspapers / TV / Radio
(off and online) (weekend)
- social media (Monday)
The staging
controversy
- Double screen effect
- Twitter / TV interaction
Emotion?
- Dramatisation (fdesouche.com)
- Twitter: high frequency circulation of information
- double screen effect
→ emotion as a mode of connection to the past
→ emotion as a way to go out of one specific political milieu
