Waiting: a project in conversation
Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all wait, albeit differently and for different reasons. Waiting is a particular experience of time, shaped by class, race, and gender. In modern societies, time is associated with success and money. It can be counted, saved, spent, lost, wasted or invested. Hence waiting symbolizes waste, emptiness, and uselessness. What does it mean to wait for a long period of time? How do people narrate their waiting? The book is a combination of…
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- Full title :Waiting : a project in conversation / Shahram Khosravi (ed.).
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Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all wait, albeit differently and for different reasons. Waiting is a particular experience of time, shaped by class, race, and gender. In modern societies, time is associated with success and money. It can be counted, saved, spent, lost, wasted or invested. Hence waiting symbolizes waste, emptiness, and uselessness. What does it mean to wait for a long period of time? How do people narrate their waiting? The book is a combination of text and images, by scholars, artists, architects, and curators whose works deal with waiting in various situations and geographies.
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- Publication Date:2021
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Transcript
- Place of Publication:Bielefeld
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021
The Physical Object
- Description:188 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783837654585, 3837654583
- oclc:on1236392594
- LC Classification:HM656
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