The The age of inertia?

For a Brazil of new beginnings.

Abstract

The humanities took upon themselves the astronomical concept of revolution. If before the idea consisted of a complete return to its point of return, now it goes beyond its original meaning and starts to be related to major structural transformations, a break with the status quo, or conceived as an attempt to adapt the ideal to the real; a subversion of order. However, nowadays, the idea of Revolution seems feared or something that belongs only in history books. With the fall of the USSR, with some enthusiasm, a fallacious omen was proclaimed: we have reached the end of History! The real was now only responsible for adapting to a single, victorious ideal: the (neo)liberal. It is as if after the Ages of Revolutions, Empires and Extremes, we had reached an age of conformity, the Age of Inertia, whose notion of time presents itself as an eternal and inevitable present without any dimension of future, in order to maintain human contingency and creativity hostage to a single thought, to a dictatorship with a lack of alternatives. Therefore, the objective of this work is to use classic and contemporary authors that allow us to think about today beyond the now, enabling us to glimpse new tomorrows; a rescue of our creativity and contingency. We need to recover a dispute over utopias and answer: is a revolution still possible? Can new Brazils be our horizon of expectation? Thus, through Hegel and the Hegelian tradition, we will reflect on the relationship between historicity and revolution in order to criticize what we identify as a neoliberal attempt to freeze temporality; and, finally, recover our future dimension and transformative potential.