CONTRIBUTI / 5 / Giorgio Astone
On the Social Acceleration of Oblivion. Timeless Experiences for an Ethics of Immanence
In this paper the assumption of human memory’s ‘rates of obsolescence’ will be discussed, taking into account the perspectives of Paul Virilio, Hartmut Rosa and other thinkers of the Social Acceleration Theory. Before this, obsolescence as a concept will be introduced by a reformulation of the Walter Benjamin’s dyad of human experience between Erlebnis and Erfahrung. Through the article, a critical attitude will be directed against a projectable model of human temporality in the contemporary age, represented by the notion of ‘self-management’. In the end, an alternative experience of time, provisionally defined as ‘micro-ucronic experience’, will point out examples of an ethics of immanence expressed by different social agents.
