Название: The Time of Revolt
Автор: Donatella Di Cesare
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
Жанр: Афоризмы и цитаты
isbn: 9781509548408
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The Time of Revolt
Donatella Di Cesare
Translated by David Broder
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Originally published as Il tempo della rivolta © Bollati Boringhieri editore, Torino, 2020
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My hope is the last breath …
My flight is revolt,
My heaven the abyss of tomorrow.
Heiner Müller, ‘The Angel of Despair’1
Notes
1 1 Heiner Müller, ‘Three Angels’, in Gerhard Fischer (ed.), The Mudrooroo/Müller Project. Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1993, p. 45.
The Right to Breathe
Revolt is breaking out all over the world. It flares up, it peters out, then it continues its spread once more. It crosses borders, it rocks nations, it agitates continents. A glance at the map of its sudden outbreaks and countless eruptions reveals its intermittent advance across the bumpy political landscape of the new century. Its vast scale is matched only by its intensity. Its topography outlines a landscape in which confrontation turns to opposition, discord and open struggle. Protests spread, acts of disobedience multiply, and clashes intensify. This is the time of revolt.
The blaze of revolt may seem short-lived, the event fleeting. But revolt ought not to be considered merely ephemeral. Through all its surges and retreats, it comprises a global phenomenon, and one which promises to endure. Not even the pandemic has been able to put out the flames. At a moment when many were already reflecting СКАЧАТЬ