Descrição
In this article, the author explores Michel de Certeau’s reflections to demonstrate how the past does not establish itself as a stable reference point for historiographical operation. Instead, it serves as a stake through which a society can transform death and loss into objects of knowledge, facilitating an exchange among the living. The text raises concerns about the present-centred experience of time, which decodes the past through an antiquarian paradigm, and about a horizon marked by the looming threat of climate change, where the future seems to disappear. Given this context, in which the role of historiography as the “topic of the intelligible” seems to have eroded, the author contemplates the possible ways of approaching the past, which, being able to accept loss, can still open up the horizon of the future.||Este artículo explora las reflexiones de Certeau para mostrar cómo el pasado, dentro del contexto de la operación historiográfica, más que ser un referente estable para investigar, representa un resultado y una puesta en juego a través de la cual una sociedad, al transformar la muerte y la pérdida en objeto de conocimiento, permite un intercambio entre los vivos. Se plantean preocupaciones sobre una experiencia del tiempo centrada principalmente en el presente, que interpreta el pasado sobre todo desde un paradigma anticuario, y sobre un horizonte marcado por la amenaza inminente del cambio climático, en el que el futuro parece desaparecer. Dado este contexto, en el cual el valor de la historiografía como “tópica de lo inteligible” está fuertemente erosionado, se contemplan posibles formas de configurar el pasado, que, siendo capaces de asumir la pérdida, puedan abrir el horizonte del futuro.||In this article, the author explores Michel de Certeau’s reflections to demonstrate how the past does not establish itself as a stable reference point for historiographical operation. Instead, it serves as a stake through which a society can transform death and loss into objects of knowledge, facilitating an exchange among the living. The text raises concerns about the present-centred experience of time, which decodes the past through an antiquarian paradigm, and about a horizon marked by the looming threat of climate change, where the future seems to disappear. Given this context, in which the role of historiography as the “topic of the intelligible” seems to have eroded, the author contemplates the possible ways of approaching the past, which, being able to accept loss, can still open up the horizon of the future.
