Abstract

The discussion of the Anthropocene, concerns the global environments and reflection on traditional humanism, which have taken place after COVID-19, led to new changes in the historiography. These changes are more in-depth and fundamental than those raised by so-called 'postmodern history' or memory boom. Above all, the changes of the historical temporality are of importance. Three changes that are closely related to each other, are detected. Firstly, there is no one single temporality in history. Instead multiple temporalities of society and nature coexist now. Secondly, the modern historical temporality, which is composed of the past, present, and future, faced a crisis and entered a period where only the present expands. Various factors are into play in this, but in my view, the increased 'networks' between humans and non-human beings play a key role. Thirdly, it is now starting to give more meaning to subjective than objective temporality. Because the time is considered now disconnected rather than continuous, historical events are constituted not by the objective but by the subjective meanings.

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