{"product_id":"time-joel-burges-9781479821709","title":"Time: A Vocabulary of the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe critical condition and historical motivation behind Time Studies\u003c\/b\u003e The concept of time in the post-millennial age is undergoing a radical rethinking within the humanities. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present newly theorizes our experiences of time in relation to developments in post-1945 cultural theory and arts practices. Wide ranging and theoretically provocative, the volume introduces readers to cutting-edge temporal conceptualizations and investigates what exactly constitutes the scope of time studies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing twenty essays that reveal what we talk about when we talk about time today, especially in the areas of history, measurement, and culture, each essay pairs two keywords to explore the tension and nuances between them, from \"past\/future\" and \"anticipation\/unexpected\" to \"extinction\/adaptation\" and \"serial\/simultaneous.\" Moving beyond the truisms of postmodernism, the collection newly theorizes the meanings of temporality in relationship to aesthetic, cultural, technological, and economic developments in the postwar period. This book thus assumes that time--not space, as the postmoderns had it--is central to the contemporary period, and that through it we can come to terms with what contemporaneity can be for human beings caught up in the historical present. In the end, Time reveals that the present is a cultural matrix in which overlapping temporalities condition and compete for our attention. Thus each pair of terms presents two temporalities, yielding a generative account of the time, or times, in which we live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joel Burges\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479821705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479821709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/02\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2016 pg. 112","brand":"Joel Burges","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088366907647,"sku":"9781479821709","price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c157c41-0eef-4d24-9d2f-480464db4d5d.jpg?v=1769104440","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/time-joel-burges-9781479821709","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}