Reversion of History

Title: Reversion of History
Category: History
Details: Words: 1200 | Pages: 5.1 (approximately 235 words/page)

Reversion of History

Somewhere in the course of the eighties of the twentieth century, history took a turn in another direction. Once it passed its apogee in time, once it reached the peak of the curve in its evolution, its solstice of history, a sliding back of events set in, an unfolding of inverted meaning. As in the case of cosmic space, historical space-time would also have a curvature. By way of the same chaotic effect in time …showed first 75 words of 1200 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1200 total…in this century in terms of progress, of liberation, of revolution, of violence is currently under a well-meaning review process. The question is this: is the movement of modernity reversible, and is this reversibility itself, in turn, irreversible? How far can this retrospective activity, this dream of the end of the millennium go? Isn't there a "wall of history", analogous to that of sound and speed, from which its abjuring (palinodique) movement cannot steer clear?

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