Rivolte contemporanee come agire destituente

Destitution concerns the possibility of naming that which falls outside of the circular relationship between constituent power and constituted power, a relationship that defines modern sovereignty and its conception of revolution. The text takes up this thread. In the context of the ongoing erosion of values, signifiers, and classical forms of political action, Garau understands riots as forms of destituent action, repeated ‘gestures of withdrawal that undermine the founding myth of political constitution.’ These immanent tactics hold the potential to locally dismantle the closed circularity of politics – with its requirements of clear categories, identities, demands, and consequences. The loop, here, appears as a generative repetition that eschews the strange loop of dialectics and its abstract rationality, by reasserting the affective immediacy of a protest that is evaluated in the immanence of its dif ferential becoming.