This article discusses the redefinition of "memory" and "patrimony" within the new "regime of historicity" set in motion in the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989). These keywords are treated as indicators or symptoms of our relation with time, as witnesses of the "crises" of the present order of time. The question that is approached is the following: is a new regime of historicity, one based on the present, taking shape? In the author's view, the category of present has grown rather fast and imposed an omnipotent present, which he names "presentism". This condition causes one to be torn between amnesia and the desire not to forget.
Memory; Patrimony; Historicity