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.
General
Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Classical and Contemporary Social Theory |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Peter Conlin
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
102 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-224545-4 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-03-224545-X |
Barcode: |
9781032245454 |
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