5 December 2025

9:50 AM – 10:35 AM

Salle Proudhon

Denis Viennet

Denis Viennet has a PhD in philosophy, is a high school teacher, and lectures at the Marie & Louis Pasteur University in Besançon. His research focuses on contemporary suffering caused by the acceleration of time. The path they envisage is one of resistance to dehumanization through art and writing. Denis Viennet was a mechanical engineer, is also a painter, and has taught and lectured in several countries (Rome, Porto, Amsterdam, Paris, Metz, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Tomsk, etc.).

Has the acceleration of time reached its limits?

Sociological studies attest to a systemic acceleration of our societies, with very serious consequences for health. It seems that a certain vision of modernity has advocated immensity and the absence of limits, at the risk of becoming detached from social and environmental realities. However, there are many signs that this vision is undergoing profound change. Is this techno-economic development, which claims to be unlimited, inevitable, or are there other ways of living? To answer this question, we will start from the phenomenological hypothesis of the existence of lived time, which resists the temporality of urgency and is expressed in particular in the arts and creativity.