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Daniel Shabetaï Milo, « Pour une histoire expérimentale, ou la gaie histoire », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1990.278864
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The Gay History. Yet another attempt to historically reconcile science and art-though in this case from an experimental standpoint. Concerning science, I adopt heuristic disrespect for the object, even laboratory-inflicted violence; concerning art, estrangement, i.e making the familiar unfamiliar; concerning both, a playful and yet serious view of intellectual activity. Let us assume that experimentalism exists in history. Thus quantitative history and comparativism, while by definition experimental practices, are only fully experimental if we do not obstinately seek to generate them through their object (the pitfall of reconstitution). The present manifesto indicates three other paths less travelled: counterfactuals, absence as fact, and methodological anachronism. Throughout, the gay historian obeys my motto: "commit yourself and you'll see!"