Resumen de History without chronology
Over the past decade or so, time has become an important topic in history, properly so. But popularity has also brought the use of what one might call a casual use of the nouns time and temporality. Too often, despite this move toward a reflective understanding, time and temporality still operate within a notion of Newtonian absolute time; they merely denote the past, sequence, or history (with all of its ambiguity and generality) within an absolute time. Such work reaffirms the epigraph from Certeau that chronology is the “alibi of time,” an unreflected-on category of the discipline of history. Linearity and taxonomy continue—barely modified, at best.
