Abstract

MEDEL BARRAGAN, Daniel. New Cartographies of Time: Historicity, Conflicts and Opening Up Possibilities. Hist. graf [online]. 2024, n.62, pp.173-199.  Epub Jan 26, 2024. ISSN 1405-0927.  https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi62.504.

From a cross-referenced reading between Berber Bevernage’s recent book, History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice, and some premises conceived from the recent “temporal turn” in the theoretical reflection on history, we propose ways or reading contexts to contextualize the premises on spectral temporalities.

The first of these contexts is the idea that social movements wield diverse temporalities in public spaces to configure new distributions of memories and the durations or persistence of difficult pasts. In this sense, it can be observed that temporalities are always shaped from agonic spaces or spaces of constant dissent besieged by the specters of difficult pasts.

The second context of the reading is to inscribe Bevernage’s premises on spectral times into four sensibilities that territorialize the current postulations of temporalities: a) conflict and opening up possibilities; b) heterochronies and spectrologies; c) post-natural temporalities; d) queer temporalities. Bevenarge’s spectral and Derridean approach, the critique of modernist time, and the binarisms between absence/distance and presence/absence are discussed in the light of these reading keys. In parallel, some necessary questions are raised for contemporary historiographical operations that go through the ethical dimension of time and the ghosts of violent, colonial, racist, and precarious pasts.

Keywords : State violence; memory; temporalities; historiography and theory of history; futures.

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