MATHEUS ALVES DE MEDEIROS

Since the 1970s, different authors have identified a profound epochal change in modern society, initiating discussions around terms such as postmodernity and neoliberalism. Our research aims to trace the material genesis of this experience from its temporal aspect, specifically through the notion of ‘presentism’. By describing the way in which, at a certain point, capitalist development alters the structure of lived time, we seek to recompose the passage from the time of progress to the end time, describing its main political implications. This approach will be based on the phenomenon of the extension of the present in relation to the future as a fundamental feature of a certain contemporary historical experience, as coined by François Hartog in his concept of ‘presentism’. With this in mind, we will analyse what this new temporal logic of capitalism consists of and ask, on the one hand, how it seems to be able to describe a hegemonic political experience in the period in question and, on the other, how it can be affected by the recent rise of so-called ‘extremisms’, whose historical temporality seems to find a renewed political horizon in the image of crises.