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An Orderly Mess (Paperback)
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An Orderly Mess (Paperback)
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This book was triggered by the recent geopolitical shifts and the
turn towards an allegedly post-factual era. An Orderly Mess is a
timely diagnosis of the current dissolution of the modern order,
while highlighting the opportunities of messiness. The essay
focuses on the temporal and spatial dimensions in which messiness
becomes apparent today: broken time lines and fragmented spaces.
Messiness is framed by a blurring of the world orderings inherited
from modernity. Against the backdrop of rapid digitalization, we
may find ourselves again in a phase of transition toward new ways
of world ordering. The focus on messiness reveals the different
patterns of order and disorder that underpin the current process of
transition. In the second half of the volume the author revisits
her 1989 book on Eigenzeit, which explored how moderns experience
time, or are exposed to it. A quarter century later she finds that
the new inventions of technology have challenged the traditional
meaning of time (and also of space) even more, increasing the
non-simultaneity of human existence. Today, small devices channel
into one's fingertips medial eigenzeit: the time that one has to
oneself in order to spend it with those who are absent. The past
has shrunk and the present extends to the future: "there is no
predetermined future, only a future that is as radically open as it
is inherently uncertain".
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