The Present Interregnum: The Ultra-Right Revolution

Authors

María Pía Lara, University Autónoma Metropolitana-IztapalapaFollow

Keywords

Presentism, future, experiences of time, history, precarious groups, ultra-right narratives, counter-hegemonic and hegemony, and futures-past

Document Type

Essay

Abstract

This paper deals with recent political consequences of presentism as conceptualized by the historian Francois Hartog. It clarifies how our experiences of time and history have enlarged the present and the past and have almost disappeared the future (except for catastrophic views). The consequences of these changes in the experiences reflect profound changes in expectations about the future, and how this regime of historicity allows people to become disoriented. They were moved into the margins of precarity. As a result, many of their views on politics find resonance redesigned by the distorted narratives of ultra-right leaders who blame those who are the weakest, the immigrants. These ultra-right narratives have learned how to create counter-hegemonic views to bring about their revolutions by furbishing the past myth of greatness to head towards a future's-past.

Recommended Citation

Pía Lara, María (2025) "The Present Interregnum: The Ultra-Right Revolution," Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis: Vol. 4: Iss. 3, Article 2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55533/2765-8414.1154
Available at: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/vol4/iss3/2