Multiple Perspectives on Long-Term and Contemporary Time. What Futures Are Possible

Although they are antithetical at first glance, two concerns of the thought of our timesmental and affective projection on a geological scale, and intensive questioning of the present -are in fact inseparable. Despite the fact that they often overlook the intellectual tradition from which they partly originate, thus claiming an originality that eclipses the very roots of modernity, debates on the "Anthropocene", which now receive wide attention and are fully institutionalised, nevertheless bear witness to an unprecedented realisation of historical reciprocity between long-term and present day scales. To move away from the present in order to adopt the perspective of long-term historical, or even natural, evolution of the species, in its complex relationship to the environment, has proven to be a way for humanities, art, and literature to periodically disengage from the flow and profusion of things in the present in order to gain a clearer understanding of ensembles, risks and outcomes. Since humanity entered the atomic age, the interdependence of local and global levels, as well as instant and long-term time has distinctly started structuring intellectual and artistic practices and discourses. The

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