Chrono-topologies. Hybrid Spatialities and Multiple Temporalities

✍ Scribed by Leslie Kavanaugh (ed.)

• Publisher: Rodopi B.V.
• Year: 2010
• Leaves: 240
• Series: Critical Studies. Vol 32
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The twelve papers collected in this volume, explore the consequences of time, and its relationship with space through a multi-disciplinary approach, including the philosophy of space and time, social geography, post-Marxian social theory, new network theory, philosophy of art and culture, musicology, evolutionary biology, historiography, psychoanalytic theory, and comparative literature. The chief inspiration for this collection came from the realization that although mathematics and the quantum-relativity debate in physics had fully established the concept of space-time, this realization had not been worked through into other areas of concern with concepts of spatiality and temporality. In coming together to “think through” the consequences of this twentieth century revolution in space-time, hybrid spatialities and multiple temporalities became heterogeneous and yet interrelated with the others. Not only can we only now speak of “space-time”, and not “space” and “time” as separate ontological categories, but also each becomes multiple.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Peter Galison, Minkowski’s Space-Time: From Visual Thinking to the Absolute World
3. Richard T. W. Arthur, Materialist Theories of Time
4. Nader El-Bizri, Corollaries on Space and Time: A Survey of Arabic Sources in Science and Philosophy
5. Chunglin Kwa, Agency and Space in Darwin’s Concept of Variation
6. Leslie Kavanaugh, The Time of History/The History of Time
7. Mary Lynne Ellis, Places Lived in Time
8. Patricia Locke, Intermittences: Merleau-Ponty and Proust on Time and Grief
9. Sander van Maas, Lyrical Bodies: Music and the Extension of the Soul
10. Raviv Ganchrow, Phased Space
11. Josef Früchtl,The Evidence of Film and the Presence of the World: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Cinematic Ontology
12. M. Christine Boyer, Societies of Control and Chrono-Topologies
13. Antoine Picon, Digital Architecture and the Temporal Structure of the Internet Experience

Biographies of Contributors