Chrono-topologies [electronic resource] : hybrid spatialities and multiple temporalities / edited and introduced by Leslie Kavanaugh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kavanaugh, Leslie.

Series:

Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 32.

Critical studies ; v. 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The twentieth century saw many revolutions. Various transformations in the political, economic, social, technological and artistic domains not only inaugurated new eras, or at least discourses about new eras; they also often entailed a radical reorientation in the very conceptions by which any revolution could be thought. This beautifully edited collection of essays addresses itself to the particular revolution by which we came to understand the unity of space and time as ontological categories. The twelve papers collected in this volume explore the consequences of conceptions of time and its relationship to space. Although originating from the revolution in mathematics and theoretical physics, these essays extend the thinking of space-time in a multi-disciplinary approach through the philosophy of space and time, social geography, post-Marxian social theory, new network theory, the philosophy of art and culture, musicology, evolutionary biology, historiography, psychoanalytic theory, and comparative literature. The result is a fascinating snapshot of a nearly universal transformation, but one that was only slowly realized, as the debates in one field reverberated across a vast terrain of discourse and discipline. In tracing the varied responses to the developments emanating from theoretical physics, the essays in this volume reveal how discontinuous but profound shifts in knowledge and aesthetics ultimately converge on a radically transformed horizon. Contributors are: Peter Galison, Richard T. W. Arthur, Nader El-Bizri, Chunglin Kwa, Leslie Kavanaugh, Mary Lynne Ellis, Patricia Locke, Sander van Maas, Raviv Ganchrow, Josef Früchtl, M. Christine Boyer, and Antoine Picon.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors Critical Studies

Table of Contents / Editors Critical Studies

Introduction / Leslie Kavanaugh

Minkowski’s Space-Time: From Visual Thinking to the Absolute World / Peter Galison

Materialist Theories of Time / Richard T.W. Arthur

Corollaries on Space and Time: A Survey of Arabic Sources in Science and Philosophy / Nader El-Bizri

Agency and Space in Darwin’s Concept of Variation / Chunglin Kwa

The Time of History/The History of Time / Leslie Kavanaugh

Places Lived in Time / Mary Lynne Ellis

Intermittences: Merleau-Ponty and Proust on Time and Grief / Patricia Locke

Lyrical Bodies: Music and the Extension of the Soul / Sander van Maas

Phased Space / Raviv Ganchrow

The Evidence of Film and the Presence of the World: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Cinematic Ontology / Josef Früchtl

Societies of Control and Chrono-Topologies / M. Christine Boyer

Digital Architecture and the Temporal Structure of the Internet Experience / Antoine Picon

List of Contributors / Editors Critical Studies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-89946-5

9786612899461

90-420-3142-5

OCLC:

689997501

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042031425 DOI