Accélération du temps, crise du futur, crise de la politique
Today, Western societies appear more and more like ‘nanocracies‘, as it has been proposed to rename them, because of the absolute pre-eminence of the dimension of speed within them. In other words, democracies in our time have arguably become the reign of ever more contracted temporal spaces, which...
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| description | Today, Western societies appear more and more like ‘nanocracies‘, as it has been proposed to rename them, because of the absolute pre-eminence of the dimension of speed within them. In other words, democracies in our time have arguably become the reign of ever more contracted temporal spaces, which could be symbolized with the nanosecond. But what are the effects of this process on the representation of the future? If, in the course of the XXth century, the image of the future as an open field full of possibilities has gradually faded away, the new century has revealed with ever greater clarity the interconnection between the two processes of social acceleration on the one hand and the crisis of the future on the other. The faster pace of life, together with the acceleration in the processes of economic, social and technological transformation ’burn up’ the future. Because of the temporal pressure produced in this way, the future tends to fold back in on the present; it gets consumed before it can even be represented. Conversely, the new ideals of instantaneity and mobility bear a negative influence on the understanding of politics as a field of action for the control of the processes of change, thereby throwing it into a state of crisis. The article nonetheless points to the possibility, in the end, of a vision of politics as capable of subtracting itself from the imperatives of acceleration. This vision is tied to women’s ‘situated knowledge’, the multiplicity of times and the centrality of everyday life that they contain. Together, all these elements still seem to be able to reconstruct forms of agora. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a34535f3241d486aac86c521a86e5ddd2024-12-09T15:57:17ZfraADR TemporalitésTemporalités1777-90062102-58782011-07-011310.4000/temporalites.1506Accélération du temps, crise du futur, crise de la politiqueCarmen LeccardiToday, Western societies appear more and more like ‘nanocracies‘, as it has been proposed to rename them, because of the absolute pre-eminence of the dimension of speed within them. In other words, democracies in our time have arguably become the reign of ever more contracted temporal spaces, which could be symbolized with the nanosecond. But what are the effects of this process on the representation of the future? If, in the course of the XXth century, the image of the future as an open field full of possibilities has gradually faded away, the new century has revealed with ever greater clarity the interconnection between the two processes of social acceleration on the one hand and the crisis of the future on the other. The faster pace of life, together with the acceleration in the processes of economic, social and technological transformation ’burn up’ the future. Because of the temporal pressure produced in this way, the future tends to fold back in on the present; it gets consumed before it can even be represented. Conversely, the new ideals of instantaneity and mobility bear a negative influence on the understanding of politics as a field of action for the control of the processes of change, thereby throwing it into a state of crisis. The article nonetheless points to the possibility, in the end, of a vision of politics as capable of subtracting itself from the imperatives of acceleration. This vision is tied to women’s ‘situated knowledge’, the multiplicity of times and the centrality of everyday life that they contain. Together, all these elements still seem to be able to reconstruct forms of agora.https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/1506futurespeedcrisis of politicseveryday lifewomen |
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| title | Accélération du temps, crise du futur, crise de la politique |
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