Time : a vocabulary of the present / edited by Joel Burges and Amy J. Elias.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elias, Amy J., 1961- editor.

Burges, Joel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Psychological aspects.

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Horology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: Time Studies Today / Joel Burges and Amy J. Elias

Part I. Time as History: Periodizing Time. Past/Future / Amy J. Elias

Extinction/Adaptation / Ursula K. Heise

Modern/Altermodern / David James

Obsolescence/Innovation / Joel Burges

Anticipation/Unexpected / Mark Currie

Part II. Time as Calculation: Measuring Time. Clock/Lived / Jimena Canales

Synchronic/Anachronic / Elizabeth Freeman

Human/Planetary / Heather Houser

Serial/Simultaneous / Jared Gardner

Emergency/Everyday / Ben Anderson

Labor/Leisure / Aubrey Anable

Real/Quality / Mark McGurl

Part III. Time as Culture: Mediating Time. Aesthetic/Prosthetic / Jesse Matz

Analepsis/Prolepsis / James Phelan

Embodied/Disembodied / Michelle Stephens and Sandra Stephens

Theological/Worldly / Stanley Hauerwas

Authentic/Artificial / Anthony Reed

Batch/Interactive / Nick Montfort

Transmission/Influence / Rachel Haidu

Silence/Beat / Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-0749-4

OCLC:

952107204