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futurity.
Pre-Modern era
-experience aligns with expectations
-time is circular (evverything in everyday life is alligned with a prediction of cycles )
Modern era:
disruption and domestication of the future
new image of historical time: the future is not about the end times anymore , the future is going to
be different and better, created a separation between experience and expectation (disjuncture)
DOMESTICATION: narratives of progress:
-Hegel
-Marx
_Eurocentrism (this ideas are constructed within europe)
-Capitalism (it is the way to move forward from older systems)
idea of history as a progression towards absolute knowledge
philosophically:
NO PROGRESS , 1970 onwards, ideas of progress start being critisized (after holocaust)
images of progress relate to sth traumatic, what was it in those ideas of progress that enabled the
holocaust to emerge
-direction to history
-no teleology
-No progress
-The image of the future becomes empty (derrida)
All the stories about the future and progress are all illusions.
(LYOTARD)
the angel of history swept forward and facing backwards towards he past
theres still a sense that we are moving forward, but not necessarily to anything better (derrida).
politically:
there are people criticising ideas of progress:
-underdevelopment (constructed by capitalism as to mantain certain conditions of opression and
exploitation, rich countries use cheap labour )
-Decolonisation movement
capitalist progress
what does it mean to say that capitalism has won
capitalist image of pregress
CAPITALIST TEMPORALITY
there is no image of progress in capitalism
no eschatological image of the future
the future has been cancelled
eternal present
FREDERIC JAMESON:
“It has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”
capitalism, the eternal present
the repetition again and again of the cycle of creating value
break past the cycle
POSTCAPITALIS TEMPORALITIES
-reject the inevitability of progress -? hyperstitional (the future is not sth to be waited for, nothing
that is passively received, the future is an active force within the present) ccru , the future coming
into he present the force of time, what propels us forward . we have to be active, think about
constructing the future in the present, it rejects any idea of unnecessary future
“What will have been”
the present is posited as the past of a future present
we cant have a blue print for the future
-Break through capitalist accumulation (breakthrough the eternal present) -> acceleration
phenomenological time: increased speed
historical time:static
TO ACCELERATE MEANS TO BREAK OUT OF HISTORICAL STASIS
POSTCAPITALIST TEMPORALITY:
-The acceleration of historical time
-an immanent navigation of history to replace the transcendence perspective
-a hypersitional force, to replace the dogma of historical necessity