The opening of social time

Abstract

Every shared experience is an act of social time, which is why this work intervenes, and thus it must be recognized that time acts as the social repository of significant events immersed in an idea, a memory, or an affection, both an emotion and a feeling that is equally dispersed and shared, postulating then that society itself, under this same dynamic, is a journey through social time. It is this journey, this narrative of multiple episodes where all events are located, referred to, brought together, and prevail, which, between permanence and irruptibility, stability and identity, between the perspective of the present and the prospect of the past, sketch out the continuity that, in its very volatile essence, makes every event intangible, impalpable, as if nothing had changed, while at the same time materializing a counterpart, one that refers to constant and gradual transformation. The intention will be to point out, recognize, and reclaim the role of social time as that imperceptible path under which it is possible, among other things, to identify the link that connects the past to the present, turning every event, every experience, as eternal or elusive, as ephemeral as possible, sometimes inaccessible, sometimes irreconcilable, where it is suggested that it is society itself that will recognize itself along the way.