Il tempo come campo di lotta

Le scienze sociali per un avvenire contendibile

Abstract

Starting from the introductory address delivered at the 7th National SISCC Conference (Cagliari, June 2025), this essay treats time as a historical, material, and relational stake in contemporary crises. Drawing on Durkheim, Marx, Harvey, Hartog, and Rosa, it argues that permanent emergency and social acceleration reshape institutions and subjectivities, intensifying temporal inequalities through presentism and alienation. It critiques academic hyper-subjectivism, showing how scholarly habitus can normalize neoliberal ideals of the endlessly adaptable, self-responsible individual. Against technocratic futures studies, it advances a utopian method and an ecology of futures attentive to uneven temporal resources, reclaiming “avvenire” as a contested, collective horizon.