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Temporal Politics and Banal Culture - Before the Future (Hardcover)
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Temporal Politics and Banal Culture - Before the Future (Hardcover)
Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
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This book addresses the absence of a strong alignment with the
future in contemporary social life and explores anomalous temporal
experience as a way to expand political imaginations. In the
aftermath of the modern myth of progress, it argues we have entered
into a kind of dystopia-brutal or seemingly benign-of the continual
present that is resistant to systemic change but is nevertheless
animated through cycles of novelty and obsolescence. Exploring a
condition in which we are out of ideas and facing a 'non-future' of
blind technical improvement and fear, the author examines the
heterochronia of eerie atmospheres and temporal suspensions. Rather
than a reinstatement of the great dream of The Future, a
temporality of possibility is explored in strange dimensions of
otherwise mundane sites: logistic spaces and ex-urban landscapes;
boredom connected to digital media; and the material culture of a
recently abandoned town. Drawing on contemporary social and
cultural theory, as well as urban geography and media studies, the
book develops its conceptual position through a series of vignettes
of key sites and experiences. Through an elliptical and generative
approach, it analyses zones where novelty collapses and where
figures of defiance and possibility might emerge. A rigorous
theoretical examination of contemporary life and culture grounded
in a close examination of sites and material examples, Temporal
Politics and Banal Culture: Before the Future will appeal to
scholars of social theory, sociology, cultural geography, cultural
studies and social philosophy.
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