Dear colleagues, I am pleased to share a call for paper for a special issue of the journal The Lab's Quarterly entitled "Living in the Present: Presentism, Foreverism, and the Construction of Social Reality". The aim is to gather contributions that, from sociological, anthropological, communication and media studies, and philosophical perspectives, address the transformations of temporality as one of the crucial issues of our time: the crisis of the future, the saturation of the present, technological acceleration, and the tension between the ephemeral and the permanent. *Topics of Interest* - Presentism and temporal regimes: genealogies, conceptualizations, and sociological consequences - Foreverism and digital memory: archives, traces, algorithms - Presentist temporality and the construction of social reality - Subjectivity and time: temporal experiences, update anxiety, burnout, and everyday chronotopes - Political temporality: the crisis of the future, populism, acceleration, and immobility - Digital temporality and platforms: social media, algorithms, and the production of “real time” - Ethnographies of time: how communities and bodies negotiate forms of temporal manifestations - Temporality and aesthetics: representations of time in media and the arts - Posthumanism and technological temporality - Post-pandemic temporality: discontinuity and the reinvention of social time - The materiality of permanence: infrastructures, data centers, energy, ecological impacts, and inequalities of access *Key Deadlines* - *November 15, 2026*: Submission of structured abstracts with essential bibliography ( 4,000 characters, excluding bibliography) - *December 15, 2026*: Notification of abstract acceptance. - *June 15, 2027*: Submission of full papers. - *July 20, 2027*: Outcome of the first review round. - *September 6, 2027*: Submission of revised articles. - *October 11, 2027*: Outcome of the second review round. - *December 2027*: Publication. *Submission of Contributions* Structured abstracts should be sent to the following e-mail addresses: Marianna Coppola - m.coppola@unifortunato.eu Sabino Di Chio - sabino.dichio@uniba.it Edmondo Grassi - edmondo.grassi@uniroma5.it *Full call:* https://thelabsq.sp.unipi.it/LQ/announcement/view/14 The Lab’s Quarterly is an open-access journal. No submission or publication fees are charged to authors, and no Article Processing Charges (APCs) apply.