Time -- Social aspects

Race and performance after repetition

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"RACE AND PERFORMANCE AFTER REPETITION considers the various and complex temporalities of both performance and racial aesthetics. Editors Soyica Colbert, Douglas Jones, and Shane Vogel note that performance studies has long relied on a dominant concept of repetition. Taking insp…

Great accelerator

by Virilio, Paul

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On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of light and break into even tinier pa…

The great accelerator

by Virilio, Paul

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On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of light and break into even tinier pa…

Deep time reckoning: how future thinking can help Earth now

by Ialenti, Vincent

fromOne planet (MIT Press)

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"How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"--

Deep time reckoning: how future thinking can help earth now

by Ialenti, Vincent

fromOne planet

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Introduction: Embracing deep time learning -- How to ride analogies across deep time -- How far future worlds sprout from simple repeating patterns -- How to zoom in and out on deep time from different angles -- How to face deep time expertise's mortality -- Conclusion: Escaping…

Deep time reckoning: how future thinking can help Earth now

by Ialenti, Vincent

fromOne planet (MIT Press)

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"How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"-- "We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. And yet we struggle to gr…

Deep time reckoning: how future thinking can help Earth now

by Ialenti, Vincent

fromOne planet

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"How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"--

Power and time: temporalities in conflict and the making of histo…

by Geroulanos, Stefanos, Edelstein, Dan, Wheatley, Natasha

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"In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley bring together a stunning collection of essays that challenge our understanding of what it means to interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts, "power" and "time," as the…

Power and time: temporalities in conflict and the making of histo…

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"In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley bring together a stunning collection of essays that challenge our understanding of what it means to interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts, "power" and "time," as the…

Power and time: temporalities in conflict and the making of histo…

0 Type: Book

"In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley bring together a stunning collection of essays that challenge our understanding of what it means to interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts, "power" and "time," as the…

Power and time: temporalities in conflict and the making of histo…

0 Type: Book

"In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley bring together a stunning collection of essays that challenge our understanding of what it means to interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts, "power" and "time," as the…

Mastered by the clock: time, slavery, and freedom in the American South

by Smith, Mark M., (Mark Michael)

fromFred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

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This is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a promodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners - par…

Mastered by the clock: time, slavery, and freedom in the American South

by Smith, Mark M., (Mark Michael)

fromFred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

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This is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a promodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners - par…

Waiting: a project in conversation

by Khosravi, Shahram

fromCulture & theory

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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…

Waiting: a project in conversation

fromCulture & theory

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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…

Waiting: a Project in Conversation

by Adania, Shibli, Alessandro, Petti, Bani, Abidi, Basma, Abdel Aziz, Faith, Wilding, Golrokh, Nafisi, Gunilla, Lundahl, Hayfaa, Chalabi, Hoda, Afshar, Jenny, Richards, Majd Abdel, Hamid, Mirko, Nikolić, Omar, Berrada, Omid, Mehrgan, Omid, Tofighian, Salvatore, Porcaro, Sandi, Hilal, Sepideh, Karami, Shahram, Khosravi, Tings, Chak

fromCulture & theory

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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 "counte…

War Time: an Idea, Its History, Its Consequences

by Dudziak, Mary

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When is wartime? On the surface, it is a period of time in which a society is at war. But we now live in what President Obama has called "an age without surrender ceremonies," as the Administration announced an "end to conflict in Iraq," even though conflict on the ground is ong…