Luca Diotallevi

L. Diotallevi, The world. That is: the evil of loosing time This paper is the result of an attempt to look for the “after” within the social realm, and of an attempt to take this challenge very seriously. Equating time to space is the starting point. Such an equating is also seen as a dramatic characteristic of the early modernity, of its phisics as well as of the state of its politics. Then assuming the luhmannian analysis of the path followed by the social differentiation during the course of modernization, up to the present primacy over that process exercised by the functional differentiation of the society, makes observable both the reapparaisal of the variety of temporalities and the planification and semplification of those temporalities planned and executesd by the egemony project of the state organization. So we are forced to account for the alternative remaining between saeculum – as paradigm centred on the variety of the temporalities – and secularization – as paradigm shaped on the abolition of that variety via spatialization –. Key words: society, social differentiation, space / time, Luhmann.