Polyrhythms of revolution: A comment on kevin olson’s “when is the time of revolution?”

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Kevin Olson’s “When is the Time of Revolution” constructs a critical genealogy of revolutionary temporality and how it creates political normativity. This comment evaluates Olson’s discussion of revolutionary temporality against the empirical historical archive of modern revolutions in order to argue that we should also be sensitive to the multiple, overlapping, and competing temporalities that not only normativize revolution, but are in fact the terrain of revolutionary struggle.

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Southern Journal of Philosophy

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