CHRONO-CARTOGRAPHY OF THE OCTOBER 17, 1961 MASSACRE OF ALGERIANS IN PARIS
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“In my current research about the architecture of the five states of emergency declared by the French State since 1955, the October 17, 1961 massacre that occurred in Paris towards the end of the Algerian Revolution is a key event. One thing strikes in the (disproportionally small) memorialization that is made of this event every year: the supposed spatial and temporal punctuality of its occurrence. According to the main narrative, the scenes of extreme violence of French police officers throwing Algerians into the Seine River happened around the Place Saint-Michel at the very center of Paris and manifested itself in the “hot-blooded” moment of suppression of massive demonstrations. What further research reveal on the contrary, is that this massacre occurred in a multiplicity of spatialities and temporalities. This is what this series of maps using aerial imagery of the time (plus/minus 3 years) attempts to illustrate in its descriptions of this event in a similar fashion to the one I had drawn to address the relationship between the city’s physicality and the bloody annihilation of the Paris Commune in 1871”