Revolution and Dyschrony

Abstract

This is an outline, a proposal, an essay for thinking about the 25th of April, according to three topics: the first focuses on the categories of ‘revolution’ and ‘transition’ as speci­fic ways of enunciating political change; the second emphasises the importance of the notion of time inherent in the categories of ‘revolu­tion’ and ‘transition’; the third questions the hypothesis that the 25th of April could constitute a conceptual laboratory in which it is possible to experiment politically and theoretically with structural mutations in the logic of political transformation. The use of the concept of dyschrony allows us to avoid an ideological simplification based on the Enlightenment and the translation of a naive immersion in the spirit of the Revolution. It is a question of thinking literally and in all senses about the untimeliness of 25 April.