Crisis of time

Our experience of the world is currently dominated by a multitude of crises. These various crises all have temporal aspects. This article criticises Francois Hartog's concept of presentism presentism. I argue that presentism is not uniformly distributed. There are many other temporal orientations because our societies are diverse and multicultural. The way others in for example political organizations, open their futures by mobilising their own pasts and universes should remind those who are becoming passive in their presentism that the world hosts a plurality of histories for a wide variety of alternative futures. This plurality namely shows that it is the imaginary that creates the real, that things could have been different, that presentism is only one outcome of wide variety of possibilities.