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The Time of Revolt (Paperback)
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The Time of Revolt (Paperback)
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Loot Price R412
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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.
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