Domesticating the future through history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4356311 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zoltán B Simon (0000-0001-8763-7415, Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, Bielefeld University, Germany; Institute for History, Leiden University, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 494-516 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Time & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961463x211014804 |
| OpenAlex | W3157802125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 36 |
In the most general sense, the modern idea of history is a conceptual tool deployed in order to domesticate experienced novelty and expectations of the future. In Western modernity, the operation we usually call historicization has been nothing other than an operation of temporal domestication: the integration of experienced and expected novelty into a larger processual scheme we associate with modern historical time. Based on these theoretical considerations, this article has a dual objective. First, through an analysis of historical approaches to the Anthropocene-that exemplifies present-day perceived radical novelty-it attempts to identify the linguistic-conceptual means of temporal domestication through historical time. Second, it raises the question of the politics of historical time today by focusing on the evaluative aspects of temporal domestication in an age when the future increasingly appears a threat. As a brief conclusion, the article calls for broader recognition of what it calls a plurihistoricity of "historical" transitions, the co-existence of multiple kinds of transformation and change over time
Anthropocene · Biology · Domestication · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Modernity · Nothing · Novelty · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Humanities and Social Sciences · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
La República de las letras, el presentismo y el diálogo entre la historia y las Ciencias Sociales
Disconnective futures
Conceptualizing the History of the Present Time
El presente suspendido y la experiencia del evento sin precedentes
Convergent futures
La filosofía de la historia como compromiso ético con el futuro
Historical futures and the pull of the past
Visions of the good future
Reflexiones sobre las relaciones entre pasado y futuro en una época de urgencias
Gods and Robots
The Content of the Form
Defining the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene
Futures Past
Politics of Catastrophe
The Future as Catastrophe
Medieval Robots
The bioethics of enhancement
The Precautionary Principle and the Uncertainty Paradox
Re-thinking the present
The Anthropocene
Introduction
Rethinking Historical Time
The Evolution of Knowledge
Can the Nonhuman Speak
The Working Group on the Anthropocene
History's Forgotten Doubles
Historical Futures
Planetary Boundaries
Colonization of the Americas, 'Little Ice Age' climate, and bomb-produced carbon
Time and the Modern
Politics and the Past
Regimes of historicity
The Climate of History
Indigenous temporality and climate change in Alexis Wright'sCarpentaria(2006)
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |