Abstract
<jats:p>The phenomenon of cancel culture reflects a complex and multilayered interaction between historical memory and contemporary ethical regimes that shape new standards of social interpreting the past. In the context of rapid sociocultural transformations, appeal to the history increasingly becomes a moral reflection space in which values, identities, and symbols of collective experience are reconsidered. At the same time, the cancel culture practice often possesses a destructive form replacing critical understanding of the past by its simplified rejection with the exclusion from public space. The objective of this article is to provide a philosophical analysis of cancel culture phenomenon as a form of the conflict between historical memory and current ethical settings, and to examine its impact on the formation of cultural identity and collective self-awareness.</jats:p>