ACCELERATED TEMPORALITIES IN NEOLIBERALISM

a look at contemporary school

Abstract

This theoretical essay aims to discuss how the temporalities of different accelerations can contribute to thinking about the space and curricula of contemporary schools. To achieve this, the work was divided into three parts. In the first, the concept of acceleration and its effects on the subjective dimension were presented using arguments arising from the field of Psychology. In the second, acceleration was investigated and how it has figured in the temporalities characteristic of contemporary times. In the third, an analytical distinction was drawn between the modern school and the contemporary school in order to verify the effects of temporalities on school curricula. From these analyses, it was concluded that the temporal experience of acceleration is produced by neoliberalism and has effects on the processes of subjectivation through temporal government. It was verified the existence of multiple temporalities, accelerated and decelerated, which are driven by the competition typical of neoliberalism and coexist in the social world and in our subjectivity. In relation to contemporary schools, it was noticed that their curricula have been constituted by accelerated temporalities that have synchronized and desynchronized forms. Finally, the thesis was demonstrated that both the norm of conduct and the neoliberal subjectivation model can be understood from a temporal perspective that produces effects in contemporary schools.