One can characterise modernity as the realm of the relentlessly new. But it is also the realm of repetition. We are in an eternal interregnum. In the 1930s Antonio Gramsci famously declares that “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.” Yet it appears we have been stuck in this moment ever since, and the eternal recurrence of this quote indicates the infinite interregnum of modernity.
Nietzsche and Us
Nietzsche and Us
Nietzsche and Us
One can characterise modernity as the realm of the relentlessly new. But it is also the realm of repetition. We are in an eternal interregnum. In the 1930s Antonio Gramsci famously declares that “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.” Yet it appears we have been stuck in this moment ever since, and the eternal recurrence of this quote indicates the infinite interregnum of modernity.