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.
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Donatella Di Cesare. The Time of Revolt
Table of Contents
Guide
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The Time of Revolt
Copyright Page
Quote
Notes
The Right to Breathe
Notes
The Constellation of Revolts
Notes
Between Politics and Police
Notes
Occupations: From the Factories to the Squares
Bella ciao: Notes of Resistance
Notes
A Spectral Era
Notes
In Search of the Lost Revolution
Notes
What Does Revolt Mean?
Notes
The Individual’s Cry – and the Wounds of History
Notes
Spartacus’s Day after Tomorrow
Notes
The Limits of Public Space
Notes
The Right to Appear
Notes
A Volte-Face on Power
Notes
Prefigurations
Notes
An Existential Tension
If Dissent is a Crime
Notes
The New Disobedients
Notes
Anonymous’s Grin
Notes
On Invisibility: A Show of Self-Concealment
Notes
Masks and Zones of Irresponsibility
Notes
Leaks
Notes
Resident Foreigners: The Anarchist Revolt
Notes
Barricades in Time
Bibliography
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Donatella Di Cesare
Translated by David Broder
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In this light, just as these acts of violence reveal the true essence of the police, they also shed light on the architecture of a politics which captures and banishes, includes and excludes. This is an architecture in which discrimination is always already latent. Suddenly we can see the borders of immunodemocracy, where the defence reserved for some – the guaranteed, the protected, those who cannot be touched – is denied to the others, the rejects, the exposed, reduced to superfluous, unwelcome bodies who can ultimately be got rid of. Coronavirus has made the immunization of the people within these borders even more exclusive and the exposure of those on the outside even more implacable. The police make this immunopolitics visible in the public space.
The revolt is no accidental response. It would be mistaken to consider it a simple explosion of anger, a directionless reaction against the incumbent suffocation. The scenes that have repeatedly played out in streets and squares, even despite the pandemic, are a direct response to the police’s actions – they are a way of taking back the square, restoring the presence of the excluded, and defending the rights of the undesirables.
