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The rereading of Eboussi Boulaga’s thought shows the philosopher’s ability to turn away from the binary vision opposing time and place through origin. If “past and future are vanishing points,” it is necessary to “think spatially” in order to consider humans not as historical products, and their works not as the result of an “evolution” in time, but as the fruit of a constant “reinvention.” The notion of “topology”—derived from Eboussi Boulaga’s interpretation of the interdisciplinary mathematician René Thom (1923–2002)—is analysed in this paper, taking into account the notion’s cultural, political and societal significance, based on the coupling of “topology and anarchy” made by Boulaga in an essay presented for the first time in 2003, and for the last time in 2018, the year of his death.