The struggle of memory against forgetting

Milan Kundera - that excellent fraud - wrote about how important memory was in the struggle against totalitarianism. His target back then was, of course, Stalinism, but his work has ironically a lot to say about current market fundamentalist societies. Over at K-punk there is an excellent essay on the nature of memory and contemporary society. Blogging does serve, in a minute way, as a form of remembering. Constant forgetting, a political amnesia, would be a perfect capitalist disease.