Vanishing Points: Another Science of Time

The project ‘Vanishing Points: Another Science of Time’ is a research initiative funded by the OSIC 2025 Grant, which has a twofold objective: on the one hand, the construction of the ‘Hegemonic History of Time’ and, on the other, the critical identification of the vanishing points of this History. We call them ‘vanishing points’ to refer to everything that could help us think the official History of the science of time in a different way. For this reason, we have displayed four strategies: to subjectivize it in the face of its purported objectivity, redraw its evolution to figure it beyond linearity and causality, open new paths excluded by the frantic race towards precision and, finally, politicize it through the lens of gender and decoloniality.

The ‘chronogram’ presented here is one of the ways of visually presenting this research into points of fugue, concentrating on its politicisation through gender and decoloniality. This chronogram is titled ‘History(s) of Time’ and aims to offer an accessible and rigorous insight into the hegemonic conception and measurement of time, as well as to “vanish” this vision with a dual potential axis: ‘non-European scientists’ and ‘women scientists’.

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