The 2010 protests broke through the end-of-history consensus onto uncertain terrain

Evidence

We’ve broken out of the end of history onto terra incognito. What’s certain is that the old world is disintegrating, and soon it will not be possible to even pretend that we can return to it. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1549

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: The 2010s exceeded the 1960s as the largest protest decade in history — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 45; The 2010 student protests expressed discontent with capitalist realism itself; Mass leaderless protest can rupture the sense of living at history’s end