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The paper proposes a reflection on the configuration of temporality in 21st century Latin American narratives that, directly or indirectly, fictionalize recent historical events. We start from the hypothesis that, in these narratives, through a phantasmatic aesthetic that metaphorizes bodies, the past gains centrality as a temporal dimension that imposes itself on the present. To develop this hypothesis, contemporary cinematographic and literary works will be put into dialogue, such as the films Aranha, by Andrés Wood, A Chorona, by Jayro Bustamante, and novels, such as O corpo interminável, by Cláudia Lage, Degeneração, by Fernando Bonassi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses, from the Anthropology of Christianity, how the relationship of Pentecostals with time can inspire their form of presence in the Brazilian public sphere. Through the conversion process, the faithful learn specific ways of structuring time, among them, the prophetic temporality, the focus of this article. This temporal framework generates disciplined sensitivities that exceed the lives of the faithful, stimulating the mode of Pentecostalism public incidence as an institution. To give an account of what I want to show, I will bring data referring to two events led by Silas Malafaia, one of the main evangelical leaders in Brazil. I will focus mainly on the Prophetic Act in favor of Brazil, which took place in 2016 in the context of the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, and on the service which Malafaia receives in his church the then newly elected president Jair Bolsonaro. The context of the prophecies declared by Malafaia in both events will be the main target of the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This How may indigenous practices from Oceania open up the possibility of a future occluded by the long epoch of surplus accumulation? This future is not unforeseeable, but rather one that co-exists as an impeded possibility in the present. The global South--whether as time, space, value or figure--inhabits the order of the non-synchronous and archaic vis-à-vis the global north as dictated by the normative law of surplus accumulation. In this paper I draw on Theodor Adorno's insight concerning the co-presence of the archaic in the time of modernity to argue that the perspectival aspect of modernity is built on the act of looking at something while looking through it. In other words, seeing concerns the paradoxical act of not-seeing, of looking through some aspect or dimension of whatever one is looking at. If, however, silence were to discover speech, and we commenced to look at what we have been taught to look through, modernity starts to take on an altogether different aspect. The Global South of Oceania, in particular, turns into a region of innovative archaisms, counter-national imaginings, surplus-subverting practices and communal forms of ecological ethics. This paper contends that archaic indigenous practices, in concert with scientific knowledge, may be in advance of the modern in offering a pragmatic response to the climate-related crisis generated by modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose to understand the relationship between media culture and modern life, based on the assumption that communication is a social practice, thought here under the aspects of temporality. Our premise is to seek the past as a tool to understand the present. In this paper we will assume the illustrated magazines as constructors of the city spectacle and the staging of modernity, translating to readers the ways of sociability suitable for that time and acting as mediators in this transformation stage. Our corpus will be composed of 12 editions of Fon-Fon!, published in 1908. We will take the sections "Na Calçada" and "O Rio Elegante", as well as some advertisements as objects of this analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the autonomy of subjects engaged in substance misuse (SM). After examining the concept of autonomy of subjects engaged in SM, based on medical, psychological and moral paradigms that range between understanding SM either as a compulsion or a choice, we discuss the psychopathological aspects involved in SM, i.e., the experience of temporality and its implications regarding the autonomy of these subjects and their recovery process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I discuss some semantic properties that characterise the Futuro Simples (Simple Future) in European Portuguese. Departing from examples gathered in the CETEMPúblico corpus, I claim that the Futuro Simples conveys an important range of modal meanings, particularly noticeable in contexts where a covert conditional sentence is assumed, where shared knowledge plays a particular role or where a hypothetical or conjectural reading, overlapping with the speech time, is carried out. Nevertheless, as I demonstrate, temporal information constitutes also a central feature in the semantics of this verbal form, since the Futuro Simples is perfectly compatible with contexts expressing certainty, predictable facts and accurate located future situations. Moreover, aspectual factors seem to restrict some modal interpretations ascribed to the structure under analysis. In view of its two-dimensional nature, I claim that the best analysis for the semantics of the Futuro Simples must involve temporal and modal features interacting dynamically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this brief paper we seek to build an analysis about how the alienist medical and Argentine historian José María Ramos Mejía (1842-1914) tried to equate the then current scientific and evolutionist theory with a historical narrative about his country, repeatedly retaking the idea of a natural evolution applied to history. By analyzing two of his works, it was identified that Ramos Mejía presents a compelling appropriation of the evolutionary science. The outcome of the examination carried out by Mejía demonstrates that, once applied to history, evolutionary laws strengthen a problematized understanding of that temporality, apart from a simple linearity which would provided the coexistence of different phases of evolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking the example of Pape Pathé Diop's urban novel La poubelle (1984), the present article demonstrates that the description of structures and functions in the Global South city requires not only spatial but also temporal categories. Starting from the guiding metaphors of transitivity, daily rhythm and footprint effects developed by urban geographers Amin and Thrift (2002), as well as from Achille Mbembe's concept of time of entanglement, the paper analyzes the different regimes of temporality and the temporal entanglements that determine the relation between subject and community in Dakar. It shows that by focussing on temporality, Diop manages to integrate in his portrait of Dakar historical dimensions as well as global entanglements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the past few decades, reflections on the subject of temporality have come to stand out in the historiographic research agenda. This paper aims to perform a comparative analysis of two theoretical proposals which have found repercussions in that agenda: François Hartog's, which concentrates in the categories of “historicity regimes" and “presentism," and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht‘s, mainly focused on the categories of “chronotope," “slow present," and “latency." Although these categories are sometimes used interchangeably in some texts and debates, they yield important differences, regarding their epistemological (or ontological) foundations and heuristic scope, as well as the manner in which they deliver their diagnosis and prognosis of contemporary experiences, resulting in distinct disciplinary and ethical stances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focus on the concept of time, as experienced and understood by teachers and researchers. Based on the analysis of information obtained by crossing several research techniques, the text presents the main ways by which teachers and researchers understand time. The analysis is developed taking into consideration the following dimensions: definition and the description of the time, the institutional pressure to use more and more intensive information and communication technologies and, ultimately, the evaluation they make about how institutional times constraint individual times. On the basis of the literature on the uses and perceptions of time in academia and giving particular attention to gender differences, the text shows that female academics and researchers have more difficulties to organize time than men colleagues, as a result for the constraint exercised by macroglobal temporal regimes that cross the worlds of higher education and research and which are translated in the implantation of academic capitalism. The findings presented allow us to discuss its implications for the affirmation of gender policies in the academy which may cover the debate about a time policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]