Abstract
How has capitalism transformed our relationship to time (cosmic, historical, social, and individual)? To address this question, I shall refer mainly but not exclusively to Marx. Though it does not give us a systematic and comprehensive analysis of this issue, there are notations about it scattered throughout his work, which are often very insightful, Such notations are especially (but not exclusively) found in Capital. There is in the Capital and the enormous mass of manuscripts that preceded and accompanied its design and drafting (incomplete) analysis of specific temporalities of capital and capitalism, of which Marx shows the complexity: linear time trial production; cyclical time of the circulation process; time helical but also catastrophic global process of capitalist production, leading to the dramatic time of history and political action, etc. My paper proposes to synthesize only some of these ratings. We focus primarily on the idea that, relative to earlier society, capitalism has literally revolutionized our relationship to time in its three constitutive dimensions: the relationship to the past, the present and the report in the future (the future).
