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CHRONOCIDE: Prologue to the Resurrection of Time

CHRONOCIDE: Prologue to the Resurrection of Time Page 186 Prologue to the Resurrection of Time Mikhail Translated by Edward Skidelsky Regicide, matricide, parricide, ecocide . . . the suffix cide has had an especially brilliant career since 1944, when the word genocide was introduced by Raphael Lemkin, an American lawyer of Polish extraction. At the commencement of our new century, I would like to propose, generalizing from the rich criminal experience of the last century, another neologism: — the murder of time. , genocide, and ecocide are linked, as a rule, in a straight line of revolutionary development. The first victim of any revolution, right-wing or left-, is time. Revolution begins with , the murder of time past in the name of an abstract future. Only when time, a given time, has been killed does a revolution begin to devour human lives. Genocide is a matter of condemning whole nations, estates, or classes deemed unworthy of the future to remain in the past. is an invisible cataclysm in consciousness, but it comes first; and later cataclysms depend upon it. has happened nowhere with such insane consequences as in Russia. For here, the victim was the present. The present — perceived as an echo of 9:2 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

CHRONOCIDE: Prologue to the Resurrection of Time

Epstein, Mikhail
Common Knowledge , Volume 9 (2) – Apr 1, 2003
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Page 186 Prologue to the Resurrection of Time Mikhail Translated by Edward Skidelsky Regicide, matricide, parricide, ecocide . . . the suffix cide has had an especially brilliant career since 1944, when the word genocide was introduced by Raphael Lemkin, an American lawyer of Polish extraction. At the commencement of our new century, I would like to propose, generalizing from the rich criminal experience of the last century, another neologism: — the murder of time. , genocide, and ecocide are linked, as a rule, in a straight line of revolutionary development. The first victim of any revolution, right-wing or left-, is time. Revolution begins with , the murder of time past in the name of an abstract future. Only when time, a given time, has been killed does a revolution begin to devour human lives. Genocide is a matter of condemning whole nations, estates, or classes deemed unworthy of the future to remain in the past. is an invisible cataclysm in consciousness, but it comes first; and later cataclysms depend upon it. has happened nowhere with such insane consequences as in Russia. For here, the victim was the present. The present — perceived as an echo of 9:2

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Published: Apr 1, 2003

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