Die Zeit der Revolte

Marginalised by systematic reflection and presented in media narratives as a chaotic, dark and opaque event, the revolt represents a global topic within the current political-social scene. For the first time, Donatella Di Cesare explores the diverse political and philosophical aspects of the revolt, thus providing a precise reflection of the current situation. Like the migrations, the revolt gives an idea of what is happening in the "outside", beyond the state-centred order, at the edges of political architecture, around the strictly monitored boundaries of public space. In her praise of revolt and its manifold turns against power, Di Cesare also questions the neighbouring phenomena: the lost revolution in all its ambiguity and resistance in all its forms. While the movements that have recently reoccupied the squares, signalling the decline of political representation, assert a right to appear and demand their entry into the public space, the revolt goes a good deal further: instead of accepting the internal conflict, it questions the framing of this space itself. Its protagonists are numerous: from the new disobedient to those who practise anonymity on the net, from those who emphatically draw attention to violations of the law to the ubiquitous "invisibles".