Par-delà les temps qui courent : comment la pandémie de covid-19 nous invite à refonder notre rapport au temps
The similarities between the sanitary and ecological crisis have been largely debated. This comparison is fruitful because it allows us to question the metaphysics of time which is not tackled in mainstream economics. Time has been widely discussed in the social sciences for decades. It is also at t...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Recherche & Régulation
2021-02-01
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| Series: | Revue de la Régulation |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/regulation/17646 |
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| Summary: | The similarities between the sanitary and ecological crisis have been largely debated. This comparison is fruitful because it allows us to question the metaphysics of time which is not tackled in mainstream economics. Time has been widely discussed in the social sciences for decades. It is also at the heart of the institutional definition of “sustainable development”. Yet the temporality of socio-environmental relations is seldom studied. The unique temporality of socio-environmental transformations is difficult to grasp for most of us. The covid-19 pandemic led us to concretely experiment some of these temporal features such as the exponentiality and radical uncertainty of the processes at stake. Moreover, many proposals for the “day after” encompass temporal features, for instance the need to anticipate or the invitation to slow down. However, these proposals do not account for other fundamental temporal upheavals of ecological disasters such as the irreversibility and invisibility of the processes as well as the brutal shocks generated by tipping points. If we want to take sustainability issues seriously, what we need is not only a great transformation in time but, maybe even more importantly, a great transformation of time. Moving away from the ideal of control at the heart of the dominant conception of time in contemporary western societies thus invites us to transform our relationship to time so as to account for the polychronic temporalities of the living world. A realistic and multidisciplinary approach could serve as a basis for a more systematic reflection and inspire a refoundation of our relationship with time. |
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| ISSN: | 1957-7796 |