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.
In May 2023, he took up the post of Editor-in-Chief of KronoScope. Journal for the Study of Time and, in December, was awarded third-party funding from the National Research and Development Agency (ANID-Chile), for a project on ‘Notions of Space and Time in Social Theory’ (11240326), funded for three years (2024–2026). The project aims to systematise the concepts of time and space in the history of social theory and to explore possible avenues for innovative integrations of the two. Finally, in 2024, he joined the sub-group of the SFB Structural Change of Property Consortium on “Making things available: Ownership as an incarnation of our relationship with the world” with a project on time and automation, and the FONDECYT Regular grant “Matters of Time” No. 1241495, funded by ANID (2024–2028).
His academic interests centre on the theory of acceleration, socio-political concepts of time (utopia, progress, revolution), social theory and conceptual history.
Felipe Torres
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