The twentieth century saw many revolutions. Various transformations
in the political, economic, social, technological and artistic
domains not only inaugurated new eras, or at least discourses about
new eras; they also often entailed a radical reorientation in the
very conceptions by which any revolution could be thought. This
beautifully edited collection of essays addresses itself to the
particular revolution by which we came to understand the unity of
space and time as ontological categories. The twelve papers
collected in this volume explore the consequences of conceptions of
time and its relationship to space. Although originating from the
revolution in mathematics and theoretical physics, these essays
extend the thinking of space-time in a multi-disciplinary approach
through the philosophy of space and time, social geography,
post-Marxian social theory, new network theory, the philosophy of
art and culture, musicology, evolutionary biology, historiography,
psychoanalytic theory, and comparative literature. The result is a
fascinating snapshot of a nearly universal transformation, but one
that was only slowly realized, as the debates in one field
reverberated across a vast terrain of discourse and discipline. In
tracing the varied responses to the developments emanating from
theoretical physics, the essays in this volume reveal how
discontinuous but profound shifts in knowledge and aesthetics
ultimately converge on a radically transformed horizon.
Contributors are: Peter Galison, Richard T. W. Arthur, Nader
El-Bizri, Chunglin Kwa, Leslie Kavanaugh, Mary Lynne Ellis,
Patricia Locke, Sander van Maas, Raviv Ganchrow, Josef Fruchtl, M.
Christine Boyer, and Antoine Picon.
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