Uprisings and Historical Time. On suspension as a Critical Moment

NATALIA TACCETTA

História da historiografia

Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) e Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

Lugar: Río de Janeiro; Año: 2022 vol. 15 p. 133 - 154

1983-9928

Following on some of the ideas proposed by Georges Didi-Huberman in an exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris,this article offers reflections on uprising as a repetitive, sovereign, and collective gesture of a search for freedom.First, we define this idea of the uprising based on a series of recent works by authors such as Judith Butler,Elsa Dorlin, and Jacques Rancière. We will try to think about the relation between revolt, revolution and crisis,emphasizing the temporary characteristics of these terms. Following that, we specifically address the relationshipbetween uprisings and the suspension of historical time that has been clearly proposed by the Italian historian FurioJesi in Spartakus. This leads us to a review of the same notion of suspension from Walter Benjamin?s perspective,while also considering proposals made by Giorgio Agamben and Aby Warburg as fundamental interlocutors. Finally,we will discuss the current state of the concept through the lenses of some recent occurrences in Latin America.