Revealing the conjunctures: thinking about politics in our time

Abstract

In addition to its meaning as a combination of factors and circumstances that characterize a situation at a given moment, the term joint, in its anatomical sense, means a joint that is capable of moving and joins two bone bodies. It is by attending to the latter that one can understand (resorting to metaphor) the book by Israel Covarrubias, The political and its footprints. Essays on the relationship between time and democracy. The collection of texts that it presents contributes to removing the veils that, inadvertently, but effectively, hide the articulation axes of political phenomena in this era (which in the West pretends to be democratic).