ABSTRACT Rajadhyaksha’s essay is basically an ambitious and challenging attempt to place protest movements and their relation to changing structures of power in a larger comparative historical framework. What the suggested framework recognizes is that history today is experienced more and more as a form of hysteria that defies our efforts to understand it. In this situation, historiography needs all the help it can get, including turning to science fiction for insights. The “planetary shift” in this respect is not just a geo-physical phenomenon. It points to “the great transition” in the essay’s title, to the fact that the grids and paradigms which we have been using to understand the world, including globalization and protest movements, no longer work. Normalcies and anomalies can no longer be easily distinguished from each other. The exception does not prove the rule; instead, what the proliferation of anomalies proves is that the rules have already changed.

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评论Ashish Rajadhyaksha的“伟大的过渡：我们为历史而战”

摘要拉贾德雅克莎（Rajadhyaksha）的论文基本上是一项雄心勃勃且具有挑战性的尝试，旨在将抗议运动及其与权力变化结构的关系置于一个较大的比较历史框架中。建议的框架认识到的是，今天的历史越来越多地被视为一种歇斯底里的形式，无视我们为理解它所做的努力。在这种情况下，史学需要它能获得的所有帮助，包括寻求科幻小说的帮助。在这方面，“行星位移”不仅仅是地球物理现象。它指出了论文标题中的“重大转变”，即我们一直用来理解世界的网格和范式（包括全球化和抗议运动）不再起作用。常态和异常不再容易区分。异常不能证明规则；相反，异常现象的扩散证明了规则已经改变。