The critical condition and historical motivation behind Time
Studies 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.
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