Power and time : temporalities in conflict and the making of history / edited by Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edelstein, Dan, editor.

Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979- editor.

Wheatley, Natasha, editor.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

World history--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.) : 17 halftones

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, the editors challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts - 'power' and 'time' - as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how power is constituted through the shaping of temporal regimes in historically specific ways.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Chronocenosis: An Introduction to Power and Time

Part I Temporal Pluralities in Conflict

1 Legal Pluralism as Temporal Pluralism: Historical Rights, Legal Vitalism, and Non-Synchronous Sovereignty

2 The Invention of the Muslim Golden Age: Universal History, the Arabs, Science, and Islam

3 Rise and Fall of the Sattelzeit: The Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe and the Temporality of Totalitarianism and Genocide

4 A Technofossil of the Anthropocene: Sliding Up and Down Temporal Scales with Plastic

Part II Loops, Layers, Assemblages

5 Long Divided Must Unite, Long United Must Divide: Dynasty, Histories, and the Orders of Time in China

6 The Temporal Assemblage of the Nazi New Man: The “Empty” Present, the Incipient Ruin, and the Apocalyptic Time of Lebensraum

7 Prehistory and Posthistory: Apes, Caves, Bombs, and Time in Georges Bataille

Part III The Splintered Present

8 Brain-Time Experiments: Acute Acceleration, Intensified Synchronization, and the Belatedness of the Modern Subject

9 Cryopower and the Temporality of Frozen Indigenous Blood Samples

10 “Now Is the Time for Helter Skelter”: Terror, Temporality, and the Manson Family

Part IV Speed(s)

11 Legal Panics, Fast and Slow: Slavery and the Constitution of Empire

12 Time and the Economics of the Business Cycle in Modern Capitalism

13 History and Temporal Sovereignty in the Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru

Part V “Already Here . . . Just Not Evenly Distributed”: Heterochronies of the Future

14 Future Perfect: Political and Emotional Economies of Revolutionary Time

15 The Future in the US Supreme Court

16 Commemorating the End of History: Timelessness and Power in Contemporary Russia

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index of Temporal Terms

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2021).

ISBN:

0-226-70601-X

OCLC:

1202470743