# Temporality

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In [philosophy](/source/philosophy), '''temporality''' refers to the idea of a linear progression of past, present, and future. The term is frequently used, however, in the context of critiques of commonly held ideas of linear [time](/source/time). In [social science](/source/social_science)s, temporality is studied with respect to the human perception of time and the social organization of time.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ialenti |first1=Vincent |title=Deep Time Reckoning |publisher=The MIT Press |year=2020 |isbn=9780262539265 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}</ref> The perception of time in Western thought underwent significant changes in the three hundred years between the Middle Ages and modernity.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Utz |first1=Richard |year=2011 |title=Negotiating Heritage: Observations on Semantic Concepts, Temporality, and the Centre of the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals |url=https://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin58/p58t8.htm |issue=58 |pages=70–87 |issn=1433-7177 |journal=Philologie Im Netz}}</ref> 

Examples in [Continental philosophy](/source/Continental_philosophy) of philosophers raising questions of temporality include [Edmund Husserl](/source/Edmund_Husserl)'s analysis of internal time consciousness, [Martin Heidegger](/source/Martin_Heidegger)'s ''[Being and Time](/source/Being_and_Time)'', [J. M. E. McTaggart](/source/J._M._E._McTaggart)'s article "[The Unreality of Time](/source/The_Unreality_of_Time)", [George Herbert Mead](/source/George_Herbert_Mead)'s ''Philosophy of the Present'', and [Jacques Derrida](/source/Jacques_Derrida)'s criticisms of Husserl's analysis. 

Temporality is "deeply intertwined with the rhetorical act of harnessing and subverting power in the unfolding struggle for justice."<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bjork |first1=Collin |last2=Buhre |first2=Frida |date=2021-05-27 |title=Resisting Temporal Regimes, Imagining Just Temporalities |journal=Rhetoric Society Quarterly |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=177–181 |doi=10.1080/02773945.2021.1918503 |issn=0277-3945 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Temporalities, particularly in European [settler colonialism](/source/settler_colonialism), have been observed in [critical theory](/source/critical_theory) as a tool for both subjugation and oppression of Indigenous communities, and Native resistance to that oppression.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Buhre |first1=Frida |last2=Bjork |first2=Collin |date=2021-05-27 |title=Braiding Time: Sami Temporalities for Indigenous Justice |journal=Rhetoric Society Quarterly |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=227–236 |doi=10.1080/02773945.2021.1918515 |issn=0277-3945 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Temporal turn==
In [historiography](/source/historiography), questioning [periodization](/source/periodization), and as a further development after the [spatial turn](/source/spatial_turn), social sciences have started re-investigating time and its different social understanding.<ref name="Corfield 2015 pp. 259–273">{{Cite book |last1=Corfield |first1=Penelope J. |title=Les âges de Britannia |publisher=Presses universitaires de Rennes |year=2015 |isbn=9782753540200 |pages=259–273 |chapter=History and the Temporal Turn: Returning to Causes, Effects and Diachronic Trends |doi=10.4000/books.pur.92961}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Levy |first=Yael |title=Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound |url=https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/4382/chick-tv/ |publisher=Syracuse University Press |year=2022 |isbn=9780815637240 |language=en}}</ref> Temporal turn social science investigates different understandings of time at different times and locations, giving rise to concepts such as ''timespace'' where time and space are thought together.<ref name="May Thrift 2003 p. ">{{Cite book |last1=May |first1=J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSOEAgAAQBAJ |title=Timespace: Geographies of Temporality |last2=Thrift |first2=N. |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-134-67785-6 |series=Critical Geographies |access-date=2022-11-30}}</ref>

==See also==
*[Futures studies](/source/Futures_studies)
*[Historicity (philosophy)](/source/Historicity_(philosophy))
*[Impermanence](/source/Impermanence)
*[Linear temporal logic](/source/Linear_temporal_logic)
*[Philosophy of space and time](/source/Philosophy_of_space_and_time)
*[Time series](/source/Time_series)
*[Vanitas](/source/Vanitas)

==References==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090814164814/http://www.ceitt.com/index-en.html  CEITT – ''Time and Temporality Research Center'']

Category:Philosophy of time

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