On Futurization

1. Futurization
The gravity of capital

2. I. Social Time

3. A Short History of Social Time
 What is ‘Social Time’?
 It is the Time Socialized & Society
Temporalized.
 Socially Qualified Time & Temporally
Qualified Society
 It is Historical Transformation

4. Main Phases of Social Time
 The Past Present
 The Present Present
 The Future Present
 Emergence of the social present
 Eras, Epochs, Auspicious,
Inauspicious, peak time, Work
hour, ….

5.  Social Times are socially
constructed
 Its Trajectory is arbitrary
 It is influenced by human relations

6. Social Mentalities
It is Characterized by Social Mentalities

8. II. The Past
A Zombie category?
Dead but yet alive!

9. The Past
 History : The past that made present
possible.
 The past as it is seen in the present
 Lessons to build future
 Memory projected into future
 Justifications of the present
 Authors ‘Content of Consciousnes’
 Resource and constraint as well

10. History is Chronology?
 If time in general is an attribute of the
matter - of the whole objective reality that
exists irrespective of consciousness and will
of people, then social time is an attribute
only of the socially organized matter - of
the society where people live and act having
different demands, interests, ideals, certain
goals that they are eager to achieve.

12. It is Non-Linear
 History is non-linear;’ partly continuous;
partly dis-continuous; partly rupturous.
 Mostly Unintended consequence
 The factual past ≠ Historical Past

13. The Regime of the Past
 The History conditions the content of
consciousness.
 The past assumes ‘sacredness’
 Naturalizes identities, cultures etc.
 Freedom restrained, sacred rules determine
justice
 When stuck to it alienates the present. (Dark
Ages)
 Presently Used(!)

15. III. The Present
Praxis
Time!

16. The Present- It is Fuzzy!
 "Present time" was historically the first
measure of time because it was the most
tangible reality that a person "meet" every
moment, every day that is constantly. Then
notion of "past time" appears and much later -
the notion of "future time".
 Present is a Fuzzy notion – It is present to
some degree!

17. Hierarchy of present!
Contemporality
Interactive present
Micro-present

18. Praxis - The Live Axis of the ‘social
present’!
 Ranges from Contemporality to the
momentual micro present.
 Momentuous micro present are praxis
moments.
 Past and the present meet here!
 The past and the future are made here!
 The LIFE is present only in the present. IN
PRESENT WE LIVE!

19. The Regime Of
‘Present’
 Regime of human praxis
 Regime of ‘sensuousness’
 Regime of ‘sensibility’
 Regime of ‘Creativity & ‘freedom’
 Regime of ‘Concern’ & ‘Ethics’
 Regime of the ‘secular present’ The
‘Other’ is present in the present

23. IV. The Future
The New Zombie! Newly Born?
About to be born?

24. III. Future – The ‘unborn’ social time?
 Not just the time ahead
 Given its mass and gravity by human
intent
 Site of possibilities/ risks/ threats
 People Compete to colonize it!
 With its increase in mass and gravity the
future colonizes the ‘present’.

25. Not Born Yet Very much Alive!
 Future Investment, Its global scale, Its
networked arrangement, risk management
initiatives - give future its gravity.
 Originally it was the ‘present’- then it was the
‘history’ – and gradually now the ‘future’ that
determines the content of our consciousness!

27. The Regime of the Future
 The future molding the present
 The future assumes sacredness( Sacred =
closed!)
 Naturalizes the immediate future (Creative
Praxis will be naturally put off)
 The en-gravitated future determines ‘freedom
and ‘justice’.
 “Simplifies” ; Alienates present; Alienates life
 Unvoiced not considered!

29. BOTH HISTORIZATION AND
FUTURIZATION ARE
SOCIALIZATION OF THE
TEMPORALITY & THE REVERSE!

30. V. The New Age

31. The New Age?
 A social time is said to be sunny when the
creative praxis glows. It is dark when it is
contained.
 Both History and Future can be resource or
constraint on the human praxis.
 Un-reflexive acceptance makes both history and
future can be a constraint and liability
 Reflexive engagement converts them into
resources.

33. The Importance of Being live
to the Present!
 The Present is always a source of dynamism
and diversity-
 It is the time from which possibilities brew.
 It is the time of unconstrained praxis.
 It is the time of unfettered ‘sensuousness’ and
hence the time of ‘justice’ and ‘freedom’

34. It is open to all!
 The present can have everybody in it. It is
not the privileged time of a few.
 Nothing is ‘closed’ or made ‘sacred’ to the
present. (Any thing that is closed may be
either historical or futurist one)
 The present is a social time in which biases
can be conquered

35.  Unlike the present, the history
and futurity is biased,
privileging only a few and
muddled with identities.

36. Futuristic Concerns.
 Futurization, like globalisation is an
emerging social reality.
 If not reserved in advance, the future
will not have place for Many.
 It is human bias conditioned by monetary
profitability casting the future in some
moulds.

37.  The broader the gap between the bias with
which the future is cast and the (Ontological)
reality, the greater will be the ‘un-freedom’
and ‘un-justice’* of the futurity. (With the
futurization, futurity is already begun!- gradually
it makes the present irrelevant)
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*With reference to the natural and social world.

38. Preventable Death of the
Present.
 Keeping the present alive is the
challenge.
 It is to ensure the values of ‘freedom’ and
‘justice’ ( Freedom and justice are
ontologically closer to human praxis)

40. Can we think on….
 ‘keeping the present alive’ Is it relevant? If So
how can we facilitate it?( Our Mahayana! The
broader path)
 “Reserving Our place in the future” Can it be
ensured ( Our Hinayana- The narrow Path!)
 How to do it? Methodological innovations
Praxis Intervention