{"product_id":"temporal-politics-and-banal-culture-peter-conlin-9781472474377","title":"Temporal Politics and Banal Culture: Before the Future","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eTemporal Politics and Banal Culture: Before the Future \u003c\/i\u003ewill appeal to scholars of social theory, sociology, cultural geography, cultural studies and social philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Conlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1472474376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781472474377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d","brand":"Peter Conlin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935477170431,"sku":"9781472474377","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d1760731-5ec0-4152-bf2d-dcddfd3ace6f.jpg?v=1681420030","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/temporal-politics-and-banal-culture-peter-conlin-9781472474377","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}