- ISSN: 2211-6249
- E-ISSN: 2211-6257
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OARevolution and Eternity
Fascism’s Temporality Villa Vigoni (Loveno di Menaggio), Italy, 15–17 March 2013
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Fascism, Volume 3, Issue 1, Apr 2014, p. 47 - 52
Abstract
The conference ‘Revolution and Eternity – Fascism’s Temporality’ discussed the complex and meta-historical topic of ‘time and temporality’ with regards to the fascist experience of time, and ways of temporal thinking and acting with reference to German National Socialism, and fascism in Italy and Romania. The various papers examined specific national forms of fascism from the perspective of the concepts of political order and temporality (e.g. fascist interpretations of temporal dimensions – future, present and past). The conference revealed that the fascist view of time was based on specific (chrono)political practices (archaeology, filmmaking etc.) and that the inhumane politics of fascism were embedded in temporal paradigms that combined contradictory ideas of revolutionary acceleration with the eternal standstill of time.
