Tempos desarticulados? Aceleração, nostalgia e experiências contemporâneas do tempo em Zygmunt Bauman

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to discuss and problematize the problem of acceleration, nostalgia and experiences of time in the present based on the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The central objective of the research aims to understand how acceleration and nostalgia are temporally articulated, when glimpsed from Bauman's work, seeking to elaborate to a large extent the main temporal tensions that may arise. In this way, we seek to understand how the past, present and future are articulated and related based on the Baumannian sociological program, with the notion of “liquidity” as central to our analytical focus. To this end, the dialogue with Reinhart Koselleck, historians and intellectuals who have studied the problem of time and acceleration in contemporary times becomes an essential methodological strategy. Furthermore, to return to the relationship between acceleration and nostalgia, we seek to discuss how one topic is linked to the other, privileging in the analysis of the notion of “retrotopia”, formulated by Bauman, some tensions related to the experience of time and the interface between past and present. Our main result, therefore, is that from Bauman it is possible to identify a relationship between acceleration (liquidity) and nostalgia (retrotopia) in several aspects. We seek, with this, to contribute in some way to discussions in History Theory, historiography, interdisciplinary dialogue and debates about the meanings of contemporary Historical Time.