Historical Time and Acceleration. A Constitutive Bond

This manuscript addresses the link between the concept of `historical time' and the thesis of the acceleration of history and society in constitutive terms. `Historical time' is used as concept mainly from the eighteenth century and corresponds to a way of understanding the contemporary world as a moment in which a `chronology' of time and, along with it, the appearance of a temporalized history itself, take place. Different temporal schemes support this transition: a pass from synchronicity to diachrony, the transition from iteration to the `event, circularity to the linearity. In what follows, I propose to observe some implications and articulations of the `historical time' and `social acceleration' theses, advancing the hypothesis that they are both connected and mutual dependent.