Protests and mobilizations in the global world. Similarities and redundancies

Abstract

Contemporary phenomena of mobilization (*) of symbolic resources such as the "outraged" in Spain, the "Occupy Wall Street" in the United States, the "#I am 132" in Mexico, the "so-called Arab revolts", or the most recent " umbrella revolution "in Hong Kong," resemble "experiences of various processes of political liberalization since they are characterized by being temporary dislocations within the political processes of each of the regions where they take place, although paradoxically their global relevance is effective when they manage to become a contentious moment thanks to the fact that their specificity no longer passes through the modern field where the laceration effect of “fanaticism of action” was possible, that is, by the staging of violence that “founded” a plot of law, but they cross the field of reverses that unfold with speed here and there as a sign of the sharp departure from its matrix of historicity that had its origins and des coils in the principality of action and its modern myths. It seems that what places this pleiad of recent events in a "sharable" frequency is its closeness to the thesis that this matrix of historicity was simply exhausted. "Kaputt" (Perniola, 2010 and 2013).