Interregnum is Gramsci's "between reigns", the stretch when the old order can't rule anymore and the new one hasn't been born. It's my name for the present, caught between the Globe and the Planet.
How the word moved
In January 2025 I opened Bhumics by calling the present a Gramscian interregnum after the collapse of the liberal Leviathan. In October 2025 I named it as the moment climate politics failed, which is also what made Bhumics possible. By April 2026 it was the interregnum between the Globe and the Earth, where planetary governance becomes a practical need.
In my words
"The new order, when it finally arrives, will be ruled by a monster that emerged from the deep during the interregnum."
from Bhumics, Part 1, 21 Jan 2025
"The Polycrisis was a reasonable diagnosis of the ancien regime, but we are now in the interregnum."
from Bhumics Sidebar: From Polycrisis to Polyconflict, 25 Feb 2025
Related
- Inherited from Gramsci - I quote the Prison Notebooks and lean on his Latin.
- Related Monsterology - monsters are what an interregnum produces.
- Related Polyconflict - polyconflict is the condition of the interregnum.
- Related Rules-Based International Order - the order that's dying.
- Related Pauper - the Pauper is the one who has to act in it.
Still open
Does the interregnum end in a planetary order, or does it just go on? I don't know.