{"id":88580,"date":"2020-04-15T18:41:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T16:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geab.eu\/porter-un-regard-dhistorien-sur-la-crise-du-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T18:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:50:55","slug":"a-historians-view-of-the-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geab.eu\/en\/a-historians-view-of-the-covid-19-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Historian\u2019s view of the COVID-19 Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political anticipation is LEAP\u2019s method of \u201crationalisation of the future\u201d.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> In fact, it is very close to the \u201chistorical method\u201d <a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> in the sense that it is accessible to all and aids the social actor in adapting to the complex world which constitutes his new environment. Because of this, its practitioners have often been defined as \u201chistorians of the future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As with the history of the past, one of its primary goals, if one thinks about it carefully, is to better understand the present \u2013 a broad present that is connected to the complete temporal continuum from past to future.<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> And in the current situation, the perspective-taking (spatial and temporal) that the exercise of political anticipation requires is indispensable to the identification of the major trends indicated by the myriad of relevant events that make up our news system.<\/p>\n<p>This issue, written in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, therefore aims to gain the fullest perspective that political anticipation allows by \u201cdescribing the current crisis as the historians of the future would describe it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of the transformations we are now seeing were already in motion and it is primarily a question of understanding the way in which the specific nature of the COVID-19 crisis is provoking accelerations, decelerations and redirections of these trends.<\/p>\n<p>This exercise requires us to penetrate the smoke-screen that the media, focused on its role of counting the dead, is drawing between citizens and the reality of the gigantic reconfigurations that are under way&#8230; and to go beyond the shadow theatre projected by the fantasies of a future dreamed up by a human society rushing headlong into the systemic breach opened by the pandemic, convinced that the world it has been longing for is on the other side&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Beyond all these mixed messages, there is the world news \u2013 fully present in the mediasphere, but harder to find than usual \u2013 which makes it possible to understand what is really happening.<\/p>\n<p>More than ever before, understanding the future begins with updating our map of a present in turmoil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geab.eu\/en\/?action=download-file&amp;download-key=89078&amp;download-format=pdf&amp;download-language=&amp;download-from=front\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>GEAB 144 &#8211; Download the full issue<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>__________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0 Summary of LEAP\u2019s method of anticipation: Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leap2040.eu\/en\/methode\/\">LEAP2040<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0 Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2xvmfIP\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0 Cf this article by Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Caillol entitled <em>Political Anticipation: Allowing ourselves to think about the\u00a0other half of the timeline.<\/em> Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leap2040.eu\/en\/anticipation-politique-sautoriser-a-penser-l-autre-moitie-de-la-ligne-temporelle\/\">LEAP2040<\/a>, May 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political anticipation is LEAP\u2019s method of \u201crationalisation of the future\u201d.[1] In fact, it is very close to the \u201chistorical method\u201d [2] in the sense that it is accessible to all and aids the social actor in adapting to the complex world which constitutes his new environment. 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