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The Fascination with Unknown Time (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Fascination with Unknown Time (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon,
approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts
through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and
contexts. As a phenomenon that is both elusive and fundamentally
inaccessible, time is a key object of fascination. Throughout the
ages, different cultures have been deeply engaged in various
attempts to fill or make time by developing strategies to
familiarize unknown time and to materialize and control past,
present, or future time. Arguing for the perennial interest in
time, especially in the unknown and unattainable dimension of the
future, the contributions explore premodern ideas about eschatology
and secular future, historical configurations of the perception of
time and acceleration in fin-de-siecle Germany and contemporary
Lagos, the formation of 'deep time' and 'timelessness' in
paleontology and ethnographic museums, and the representation of
time-past, present, and future alike-in music, film, and science
fiction.
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