This document discusses the concept of social time and how it has transformed through history. It describes 3 phases of social time: the past present, present present, and future present. It analyzes each phase in detail. The past present refers to history and how societies view and utilize the past. The present present involves human praxis and creativity in the moment. The future present discusses how the future is increasingly shaping the present through futurization and how societies compete to influence the future. It argues that keeping the present alive through unconstrained human praxis is important to ensure freedom and justice, but also notes the challenge of reserving a place for all in the colonizing future.

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