Time : : A Vocabulary of the Present / / ed. by Joel Burges, Amy Elias.
The critical condition and historical motivation behind Time Studies The concept of time in the post-millennial age is undergoing a radical rethinking within the humanities. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present newly theorizes our experiences of time in relation to developments in post-1945 cultural th...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 28 black and white illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Time Studies Today -- Part I. Time as History: Periodizing Time -- 1. Past / Future -- 2. Extinction / Adaptation -- 3. Modern / Altermodern -- 4. Obsolescence / Innovation -- 5. Anticipation / Unexpected -- Part II. Time as Calculation: Measuring Time -- 6. Clock / Lived -- 7. Synchronic / Anachronic -- 8. Human / Planetary -- 9. Serial / Simultaneous -- 10. Emergency / Everyday -- 11. Labor / Leisure -- 12. Real / Quality -- Part III. Time as Culture: Mediating Time -- 13. Aesthetic / Prosthetic -- 14. Analepsis / Prolepsis -- 15. Embodied / Disembodied -- 16. Theological / Worldly -- 17. Authentic / Artificial -- 18. Batch / Interactive -- 19. Transmission / Influence -- 20. Silence / Beat -- Time Studies -- About the Contributors -- Index |
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Summary: | The critical condition and historical motivation behind Time Studies The concept of time in the post-millennial age is undergoing a radical rethinking within the humanities. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present newly theorizes our experiences of time in relation to developments in post-1945 cultural theory and arts practices. Wide ranging and theoretically provocative, the volume introduces readers to cutting-edge temporal conceptualizations and investigates what exactly constitutes the scope of time studies.Featuring twenty essays that reveal what we talk about when we talk about time today, especially in the areas of history, measurement, and culture, each essay pairs two keywords to explore the tension and nuances between them, from “past/future” and “anticipation/unexpected” to “extinction/adaptation” and “serial/simultaneous.” Moving beyond the truisms of postmodernism, the collection newly theorizes the meanings of temporality in relationship to aesthetic, cultural, technological, and economic developments in the postwar period. This book thus assumes that time—not space, as the postmoderns had it—is central to the contemporary period, and that through it we can come to terms with what contemporaneity can be for human beings caught up in the historical present. In the end, Time reveals that the present is a cultural matrix in which overlapping temporalities condition and compete for our attention. Thus each pair of terms presents two temporalities, yielding a generative account of the time, or times, in which we live. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781479807499 9783110728989 |
DOI: | 10.18574/nyu/9781479807499.001.0001 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Joel Burges, Amy Elias. |