scholarly journals The Process of Pregnancy: Paradoxical Temporalities of Prenatal Entities

Human Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Völkle ◽  
Nico Wettmann
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Process ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Unborn Child ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Temporal Complexity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Medical Models ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ultrasound Technology

AbstractIn this article, we reflect on the particular temporal structure of pregnancies and prenatal entities with the aim to contribute to the field of the sociology of pregnancy. Medical models and technology shape today’s notion of pregnancy as a linear, nine-month developmental process that leads to the birth of a child. Through ultrasound technology and prenatal examinations, prenatal entities have thus historically gained a present ‘being’ as a developing, unborn child. While these ideas undoubtedly greatly influence the participants’ interpretations, a culturalistic perspective on time alone does not do justice to the phenomenon’s lived tensions and the temporal complexity of the phenomenon. From a Schutzian perspective of time, we have worked out how practices of pregnancy and the production of meaning are shaped by an interwoven back and forth between orientations to the past, present and future. Drawing on relevant works from the sociology of pregnancy, we work out five modes of temporal references that mold the phenomenon of pregnancy: joint imagination of the couple, in which the (un)born is anticipated as fantasies of the future (1), passivities of pregnancy, in which the desired future is experienced as unable to influence (2), the presentification of the unborn in and through visual and bodily-somatic contact moments (3), its futurization through the cultivation of a ‘not-yet’ (4) and prenatal losses, as a critical rupture with the anticipated and desired future (5). Our analysis underlines the potential of a time sociological perspective on pregnancy and the constitution of relationships and persons.

Differences in temporal reasoning

Focaal ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (66) ◽  
pp. 25-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Ringel
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Temporal Reasoning ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Temporal Complexity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Temporal Flexibility ◽  
Shrinking City

Hoyerswerda, Germany's fastest-shrinking city, faces problems with the future that seem initially unrelated to the past and yet excite manifold conflicting accounts of it. The multiple and conflicting temporal references employed by Hoyerswerdians indicate that the temporal regime of postsocialism is accompanied, if not overcome, by the temporal framework of shrinkage. By reintroducing the analytical domain of the future, I show that local temporal knowledge practices are not historically predetermined by a homogenous postsocialist culture or by particular generational experiences. Rather, they exhibit what I call temporal complexity and temporal flexibility-creative uses of a variety of coexisting temporal references. My ethnographic material illustrates how such expressions of different forms of temporal reasoning structure social relations within and between different generations. Corresponding social groups are not simply divided by age, but are united through shared and heavily disputed negotiations of the post-Cold War era's contemporary crisis.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 224-232
Author(s):  
Aleida Assmann
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Modern Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Time Regime

This concluding chapter poses the question of whether or not we have too much past and too little future. After all, the notion of the past has dramatically increased in its range of meanings, as has the future. The relation between the past, the present, and the future is a three-fold relationship in which one dimension cannot exist for long without the others. Ordering this three-fold temporal structure anew and bringing the three dimensions into a balanced relation, however, continues to be an open adventure. To be sure, it is also the greatest challenge posed by the demise of the modern time regime.

scholarly journals What Time-Travel Teaches Us about Future-Bias

Philosophies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Kristie Miller
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Extreme Form ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Future-biased individuals systematically prefer positively valenced events to be in the future (positive future-bias) and negatively valenced events to be in the past (negative future-bias). The most extreme form of future-bias is absolute future-bias, whereby we completely discount the value of past events when forming our preferences. Various authors have thought that we are absolutely future-biased and that future-bias (absolute or otherwise) is at least rationally permissible. The permissibility of future-bias is often held to be grounded in the structure of the temporal dimension. In this paper I consider several proposals for grounding the permissibility of such preferences and evaluate these in the light of the preferences we would have, and judge that we should have, in various time-travel scenarios. I argue that what we learn by considering these scenarios is that these preferences really have nothing to do with temporal structure. So, if something grounds their permissibility, it is not temporal structure.

scholarly journals PEMBELAJARAN IPS SEJARAH DAN SIKAP NASIONALISME DALAM ERA GLOBALISASI

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laode Monto Bauto
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Process ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The Way

The incidence of individualist attitudes and reduced social kepedlian and others. It all becomes an indicator of the lunturnya attitude of nationalism, especially among the younger generation successor to relay the struggle of a nation. Through teaching history students capable of developing competence to think in chronological order and having knowledge about the past that can be used to understand and explain the developmental process and change people and diversity socio-culture in order find and cultivate identity nation in the society the world. Teaching history asked students realizes the diversity life experiences in each society and the way different viewpoint against its past to understand the present and build knowledge and understanding to face the future. Thus probate Soekarno “ jas red”  must remain we amalkan. As is expression philosopher mulan kundera stating that if will destroy a nation, then destory first its history should let us think about.Keywords :Pembelajaran, sikap, nasionalisme, globalisasi

The Production of Indebted Subjects: Capitalism and Melancholia

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boram Jeong
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Asymmetrical Power ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Financial Capitalism

In the essay ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’, Deleuze discusses the differences between nineteenth-century capitalism and contemporary capitalism, characterising the former as the spaces of enclosure and the latter as the open circuits of the bank. In contemporary capitalism, ‘[m]an is no longer man enclosed, but man in debt’ ( Deleuze 1992 : 6). Deleuze claims that under financial capitalism, where the primary use of money is self-generation, economic relations are thought in terms of an asymmetrical power relationship between debtor and creditor, rather than an exchange between commodities. Taking up Deleuze's claim, this paper analyses how time functions in the formation of subjectivity under financial capitalism, by focusing on the temporal structure of debt. The indebted are expected to bind themselves to the past, not only in the moment they make a promise to pay back, but from that moment onwards; in this process, a subject finds himself passively subjected to the temporality determined by the condition of indebtedness, and yet he also actively reproduces and imposes the fact of indebtedness on himself by the feeling of guilt. Guilt, arising from the irreversibility of what has been done and resulting in the inability to proceed into the future, is central both to the indebted and the melancholic. Thus a melancholic subject emerges: a subject conditioned by the dominance of the past and the impossibility of the future.

Integrative Action: The Past for Physiology, the Future for Psychology

1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-231
Author(s):  
MARCEL KINSBOURNE
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
The Future
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