Quoting Julie Momméja, Time, Bits, and Nickel, The Long Now, 2025

Longue durée, alongside its modern Californian counterpart, the ‘long now’, prompts us to reconsider our understanding of history in time as a means to encapsulate events far beyond our lifetimes. Braudel insisted historians should incorporate longue durée into their work and rethink history as an ‘infrastructure’ composed of layers of ‘slow history’.

— Julie Momméja, Time, Bits, and Nickel, The Long Now, 2025

10:43am on July 14, 2025 from Georgia.


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