This article advocates the usefulness of the research categories and proposals contained in the book by Rebeca Bryant, Daniel M. Knight, The Antropology of the Future (2019). Its authors revise a view of the present. In shaping and understanding the present, our orientation towards the future plays a larger role and is more important than hitherto thought in the social sciences and in anthropology. They maintain that in the “thick” present, past and future exist in complex relationships marked by ambivalence, idiosyncraticity and anxiety, and anthropologists should be concerned with exploring how these affective temporalities influence our actions.
Keywords: antropology, everyday, present, teleoaffect, temporality