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Though it is marginalized by reflection and presented by media narratives as a chaotic, dark event, revolt is a red-hot theme in the contemporary global landscape. In this book, Donatella Di Cesare touches for the first time on its different political and philosophical aspects, offering a suggestive and timely portrayal of contemporary events. Like migration, revolt also allows us to glimpse what goes on “outside” — beyond the state-centric order, at the edges of the political architecture, surrounding the surveilled borders of public space. In a eulogy to revolt and its overturning of power, Di Cesare also delves into contiguous phenomena, the lost revolution — in the many senses of this expression — and resistance. The movements that occupy the city squares underline the decline of representation. But if they demand the right to appear and enter the public space, revolt goes beyond. Rather than accept the internal conflict, revolt puts into question the very framing of that space. There are many protagonists: from the new “disobedient” to those who practice anonymity online, from whistleblowers to those who declare themselves “invisible.” The Time of Revolt provides a political interpretation of the mask and speaks of “zones of irresponsibility”: to hide away in order to become visible is a challenge to a state that condemns any mask other than its own. It is a challenge to faceless financial power, to the disembodied economy that pays no heed to its own effects. It thus reveals the enormous asymmetry, brings to light the disparity of forces, denounces the planetary surveillance. The revolt is no ephemeral event, but rather an anarchic transition, fulfilled in liberation from the architecture of politics.