This ground-breaking book addresses transformations in the
understanding of time and the generation and degeneration of value
at the cutting edge of modernity and postmodernity. The book is a
multi-disciplinary contribution to current work in the social
sciences, in cultural theory and in more pragmatic areas such as
advertising and global communication. It brings together the work
of distinguished international scholars and new young thinkers.
"Time and Value" contains an exploration of such themes as the
timescapes of nature and the impact of disease, ecological
catastrophe, and many other issues. In theoretical terms, the
collection draws in particular upon writers such as Jacques
Derrida, Michel Serres, Paul Virilio and Martin Heidegger, whose
work is particularly relevant in considering how technology has had
a powerful impact upon the construal of time and the explanation of
how time constructs human lives in late modernity.
The compression of time and its fragmentation correspond with a
collapse in and reconstruction of value systems. This
deconstruction of time is juxtaposed with a range of possibilities
that emerge when the specific times of the media, literature, art,
virtuality, nature, performance, fashion, semiotic codings,
spirituality, the self and the body are understood as creative
opportunity.
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