Textures of time in contemporary life

Authors

  • José Machado Pais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V18n33-2016-2-01

Abstract

One of the challenges facing the Social Sciences in their quest to understand the present lies in the problems posed by the paradoxes of time as we inhabit it today. What is proposed is a methodology that sounds out the hidden depths of social structures at the surface of everyday life on the assumption that an understanding of the present requires it to be seen in the web woven by the textures of time in its actual historical course. Manifestations of the rush of daily life in urban space will be taken as signs of a time that slips away from us and of alienation that leaves us no time to gain an awareness of it. How should we account for the traps set by the tyranny of the present? What are the meaning and implications of the acceleration of time in the pace of our lives and expectations of the future? What reconfigurations will be observed in life experiences, the visible side of time?

keywords: time; future; everyday life.

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Author Biography

José Machado Pais

Doutor em Sociologia pelo ISCTE/Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Investigador coordenador do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (UL). Autor, entre outros livros, de Sociologia da vida quotidiana. 6. ed. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2015.

Published

2016-12-30

How to Cite

Pais, J. M. (2016). Textures of time in contemporary life. ArtCultura, 18(33). https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V18n33-2016-2-01

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Section

Minidossiê: Entre a Modernidade e a Contemporaneidade