on history (diffuse)

History is thus now recognized as the chaos of a multitude of desires become coherent, temporarily in constituent groups, patterns, or movements -- in a procession of encounters. This constituent history, in contrast to a constituted history, is the extended elaboration of the ceremonials that animate the time of Genet's writing.

- Michael Hardt - "Prison time," Yale French Studies Vol. 91, 1997, pg 77