In the most general sense, the modern idea of history is a conceptual tool deployed in order to domesticate experienced novelty and expectations of the future. In Western modernity, the operation we usually call historicization has been nothing other than an operation of temporal domestication: the integration of experienced and expected novelty into a larger processual scheme we associate with modern historical time. Based on these theoretical considerations, this article has a dual objective. First, through an analysis of historical approaches to the Anthropocene—that exemplifies present-day perceived radical novelty—it attempts to identify the linguistic-conceptual means of temporal domestication through historical time. Second, it raises the question of the politics of historical time today by focusing on the evaluative aspects of temporal domestication in an age when the future increasingly appears a threat. As a brief conclusion, the article calls for broader recognition of what it calls a plurihistoricity of “historical” transitions, the co-existence of multiple kinds of transformation and change over time.

从最一般的意义上讲，现代历史观念是用来归纳经验丰富的新颖性和对未来的期望的一种概念工具。在西方现代性中，我们通常称为历史化的操作不过是时间驯化的操作：将有经验的和预期的新颖性整合到我们与现代历史时代相关联的更大的过程方案中。基于这些理论考虑，本文具有双重目标。首先，通过对人类世界的历史方法进行分析，该方法例证了当今公认的激进新颖性，它试图确定历史时期的时间驯化的语言概念方法。第二，通过关注在未来日益成为威胁的时代中的时间驯化的评估方面，它提出了当今历史政治的问题。作为一个简短的结论，本文呼吁人们对其所谓的“广泛认可”有更广泛的认识。plurihistoricity的“历史”的转变，多的共存各种转型和变革的一段时间。