Saturated Time and Critique of Daily Life
Sociology has often included the temporal dimension to researches as a variable, but rarely chose to focus specifically on time. As social representation instituted, full of the history of our society, time is however a socio-anthropological object that captures contemporary issues and capitalist relations of domination. We propose here a look on the developments over time to explain how time is an institution. Then, we propose a contemporary reading of the phenomenon (temporal anomy) in front of individualization and hypernomy. We finally propose new tools to understand the contemporary times. These tools are built on a critical perspective inherited from the French School of socio-anthropology and Marxist heterodoxy. The perspective opposes social time-instituted to instituting-time opportunities, in a dialectic actor-system. Behind this communication, you can read the program of an ongoing research.