{"resolved":true,"match_type":"uuid","source_type":"original_book","book_id":"d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2","title":"Time The Modern and Postmodern Experience","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":null,"requested_by":"printed_page","book":{"source_type":"original_book","book_id":"d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2","id":"d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2","uuid":"d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2","title":"Time The Modern and Postmodern Experience","normalized_title":"timethemodernandpostmodernexperience","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":null,"isbns":[],"parsed":true,"ai_readable":true,"document_type":"book","page_count":178,"navigation_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2","title_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/title/Time%20The%20Modern%20and%20Postmodern%20Experience","fixed_page_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2/page/{printed_page}","path_api_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/book/d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2/page/{printed_page}","read_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2","page_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2/page","search_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2/search"},"page":{"printed_page":48,"pdf_page":48,"physical_index":48,"physical_index_base":0,"printed_page_status":"recognized","page_sha256":"0c54b44e7b2bc19bfb1655d340a4a16afefd17b432aebfd26b3ed54ea5a5f6f1"},"chapter":"An Embarrassment of Proper Times:","content":"The open horizon of the future, however, which just like the expanded past was indebted to the need for time felt by the Enlightenment and became an integral part of the belief in progress, was able to stabilize as the difference, permanently to be sustained, between experience already undergone and the horizon of expectation. The traditional space of experience and the horizon of expectation - previously – derived from it diverged; in the concept of progress this increasing distinction was repeated. Because the horizon of expectation was set in motion, history was made dynamic. As Koselleck strikingly proves, the modern era of history, which could now be explicitly called such, and its progress, became applicable in the same sense. Through changes in quick succession, which were experienced first as unique, and then as supersedable experiences of reality, the space of experience changed. At the same time, however, that expectation increased which was directed towards the open horizon of the future and promised a constant opening up into something better.7\n\nThis difference had continuously to be sustained. While it was constitutive for so long for the belief in progress, it did not last in the end – either in the precarious balance between world time and lifetime, or as the collectively keepable promise of a constant, glorious improvement of the future. The open horizon in terms of world history has repeatedly'darkened, and at the moment the cloud of further, man-made catastrophes is hanging heavily over it. Viewed in terms of the lifetime, progress has admittedly brought a catching up in social prosperity and material well-being for many people, in the industrialized countries at least. But individual happiness, multiplied by the large number of all those who also want to enjoy it in the same place and at the same time, is, as a glance at jammed motorways or similar consumer pleasures shows, of relatively brief duration and diminished content. What the future promises in the way of expectations seems to be at best more of the same and at worst a diminution of stock. Even acceleration does not help any further here. Since having to run faster in order to stay in one and the same spot exposes a different experience of progress, which in a relative state of being ahead can demonstrate an equal state of being behind. The escape routes which are supposed to lead out of the expectation of the future, which has become peculiarly empty, remain ensnared in the same basic pattern. They either point to a nonexistent idyllic past or place their hopes in the next phase of technological innovation. But despite predictions and promises, the horizon remains flat and motionless. The dynamics of depth of focus has clearly been lost. Progress itself, it may be said, has aged. In the ecological sphere, the repercussions are the most dramatic, because here linearity – the continuous pushing out on a continuum temporally directed towards the future – has most drastically and most lastingly turned out to be an unfounded hope. In the biosphere as in the geosphere it is sudden events instead, the upsetting'of natural balances, and the effects arising from synthetic reactions, which from the combination of processes of different kinds with mostly unknown proper times can lead to discontinuities and breakdowns.8 With the reduction of the time-scales within which mostly unpleasant consequences of present or yesterday's actions are to be expected, the pressure of time also grows which weighs heavily on the present. It is not so much the apocalyptically tinged visions of the end of time, but the at least scientifically plausible assumptions of clear periods of time within which negative consequent effects become foreseeable. The future mapped out in linear terms draws dangerously close to the present, filled with conditional negatives. If solutions are to be found which are to be realized as well, then as soon as possible. Now.\n\n48\n\nFrom the Future to the Extended Present","previous_page":47,"next_page":49}