Retour vers le Futur

Abstract

This text is devoted to the reassessment of two articles written almost twenty years ago, one on the state of archaeological theory, the other on the recycling of propaganda images of the National Revolution carried out by Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front. It provides an opportunity to measure the transformations—some of them spectacular—of archaeological practice as a social production, as well as to assess the progress of the “dediabolization” of the racist Far Right’s theses in France.

Keywords

• theoretical archaeology
• Brexit
• anthropocene
• Far-Right
• Vichy Regime
• Nazi archaeology