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Vol. 7 No. 12 (2021)

Anachrony and Revolution

Submitted
April 16, 2021
Published
2021-12-01

Abstract

What is the temporality of revolution? Reading revolutions through the prism of a concept of history that is not teleological or unilineal but is instead structu­red as a pluriverse of historical temporalities, allows me to show how different temporalities and semantic stratification of revolution are reactivated in histo­rical revolutionary moments. From this perspective, in the concept of revolu­tion, the ancient notions of revolutio, restauratio, and restitutio are not erased but coexist as temporal stratifications that can be and have been reactivated in specific historical events. My analysis is articulated through the following guiding perspectives and historical cases, which I organize in five figures of a revolutionary polyptych: the German peasant war of 1525, the Diggers during the English Revolution, The Paris Commune in 1871, the German Revolution of 1919, and, more recently, the 1994 Zapatista insurgency.

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