Anastasis: Philosophy, Politics, Revolution

Divya Dwivedi in conversation with Matti Kangaskoski

In this coversation, organised by Natalya Bekhta in co-operation with Tekstin talo, philosopher Divya Dwivedi and writer Matti Kangaskoski will discuss the idea of anastasis. The conversation will take place at Tekstin talo in Helsinki (Finland), 14-16:00, 9 October 2024.

Ana-stasis in its secular sense means: coming over stasis. It is the rising up from the impasse of politics, which comprehends the whole world in its grip today – through global financial institutions and regimes of technology that sustain structural inequality, unemployment, disease, homelessness, and misery. Philosophy must name the laws that comprehend this stasis. Politics must be the fight for freedom for all people without exception. Then revolution would not remain the melancholic name of past events that appear “failed” in the rear view mirror of post-world-war world order, nor the name of counter-movements of identity without teleographs. Then revolution would be the fight to change the comprehending laws rather than merely resist the componential laws of countries, localities, sectors. Revolution would be: Ana-stasis.

The event is sponsored by Tekstin talo and the Research Council of Finland (via the research project “Utopia and Eastern European Literature after 1989“).