Dr Felipe Torres

PhD in Sociology from the Max Weber Centre at the University of Erfurt, Germany.

Felipe Torres is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago de Chile. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Max Weber Centre at the University of Erfurt (Germany) and is a member of the International Society for the Study of Time (ISST). He is the author of Temporal Regimes: Materiality, Politics, Technology (Routledge, 2022) and has edited the book *Concepts that Make History(ies). Studies on Reinhart Koselleck (Pólvora, 2022). He has also written articles on social theory, history and the study of time in Time & Society, Isegoría and Cinta de Moebio.

Topics

His academic interests centre on the theory of acceleration, socio-political concepts of time (utopia, progress, revolution), social theory and conceptual history.