Victoria Fareld suggests her own approach to conceptualization of the present as polychronic and temporally multidirectional.
Such a perspective, Fareld argues, not only helps us to understand how historical time is produced socially and materially—indeed how it is an ideologically generated reality effect—by exposing the temporal normativity that frames historical thinking. Such an understanding will also enable us to account for multi-layered temporal experiences, and to recognize the many presences of the past, some of which are still to be fully accounted for and narrated in contemporary history.