Desincronizzazione. La scomparsa del Tempo in esempi di science-fiction

Abstract

Many original concepts have emerged within Social Acceleration Theory, from an ontological-social perspective on the one hand and from a biopolitical point of view on the other hand. In this direction, the categories of synchronization and desynchronization, which will be at the center of our research, point out the way to the understanding of ‘Social Time’ as a process of government over human temporalities. It is possible, to represent ‘synchronization’ and ‘desynchronization’, to draw inspiration from science-fiction contemporary literature and imagery. Suggestions and insights concerning, for example, the disappearance of Time in Guido Morselli, Stephen King and Han Song’s works will shed light on the philosophical potentiality of science-fiction; at the same time, they will give us the opportunity to formulate some final questions concerning ‘synchronization’ and ‘desynchronization’. How could we distinguish an absolute desynchronization from a relative one? How, in addition, is it possible to conceive an active emancipation from Social Time in not-dystopian terms? Science-fiction and philosophy seem, in the perspective employed, to proceed in parallel, updating ontological-political-social categories suitable to analyze power, society and human actors.