[2] The two collaborated on several works, which included a project that described how the problems of modern time schema are not limited to an imperialist past or present.

[2] Hartog is currently a director of research at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) for ancient and modern historiography.

[9] In his analysis of the different "regimes of historicity", he described the modern period as "presentist" – that the present turns to the past and the future only to valorize the immediate.

It implies an approach to temporality, which rejects the linear, causal, and homogeneous conception of time characteristic of the modern regime of historicity.

[12] It has also been described as part of the cooperation among historians that allow adjustments in the interest of constructing conceptual categories and configurations that promote an understanding of "historical consciousness".

[13] A criticism of the "regimes of historicity" cites the resulting "permanent lag" produced by the discrepancies that emerge from different histories and varying relationships within this new temporality.