"The Time of Revolts" by Donatella di Cesare explores the events and nature revolting behaviors in our modern world. As capitalism gains upper hand, faith in society begins to crumble while unrest movements break all over the globe. Some moments see these movements thaw out slowly, while others explode abruptly. Even the ongoing pandemic has not abated this kind of phenomenon as our protests are slowly sparked to life once again through the Minnesota City's brutal murder of Mr.George Floyd in 2020. This calls for reflection as we face an era of violent revolutions.
According to the author, revoluting is a challenging element within any system, whether they are democratic, or undemocratic dictatorships. It raises questions about the political ethos of these governments and the legitimacy of rulers' authority. She raises the question of why does radicalized behavior have difficulty cohabiting with an environment governed by orderly political structures, asserting that "Revolts break time apart and throw history in disaray, revealing the viscous practices that underpin it". For Donatella, revolving time is rather defined as a self-transformative process of creating alternatives to current political design.
For students of political theory and critical thinking, Di Cesare's approach presents a well-balanced and intelligent vision on revolting phenomena and their underlying manifestations in contemporary culture, her analysis reveals solutions and presents alternatives for mindful governance of our future societies.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781509548408
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As capitalism triumphs on the ruins of utopias and faith in progress fades, revolts are breaking out everywhere. From London to Hong Kong and from Buenos Aires to Beirut, protests flare up, in some cases spreading like wildfire, in other cases petering out and reigniting elsewhere. Not even the pandemic has been able to stop them: as many were reflecting on the loss of public space, the fuse of a fresh explosion was lit in Minneapolis with the brutal murder of George Floyd. We are living in an age of revolt. But what is revolt? It would be a mistake to think of it as simply an explosion of anger, a spontaneous and irrational outburst, as it is often portrayed in the media. Exploding anger is not a bolt from the blue but a symptom of a social order in which the sovereignty of the state has imposed itself as the sole condition of order. Revolt challenges the sovereignty of the state, whether it is democratic or despotic, exposing the violence that underpins it. Revolt upsets the agenda of power, interrupts time, throws history into disarray. The time of revolt, discontinuous and intermittent, is also a revolt of time, an anarchic transition to a space of time that disengages itself from the architecture of politics. This brilliant reflection on the nature and significance of revolt will be of interest to students of politics and philosophy and to anyone concerned with the key questions of politics today.
