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      Temporal Politics and Banal Culture: Before the Future

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      This book addresses the absence of orientations to the future in contemporary social life and explores the shift towards anomalous temporal experience as a tool to rouse political imaginations.

      This book addresses the absence of a strong alignment with the future in cont...

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      Product ID:9781032245454
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Series:Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
      Title:Temporal Politics and Banal Culture
      Subtitle:Before the Future
      Authors:Author: Peter Conlin
      Page Count:102
      Subjects:Philosophy, Philosophy, Cultural studies, Social forecasting, future studies, Sociology, Social theory, Human geography, Cultural studies, Social forecasting, future studies, Sociology, Social theory, Human geography
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      This book addresses the absence of orientations to the future in contemporary social life and explores the shift towards anomalous temporal experience as a tool to rouse political imaginations.

      This 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, Temporal Politics and Banal Culture: Before the Future will appeal to scholars of social theory, sociology, cultural geography, cultural studies and social philosophy.


      Imprint Name:Routledge
      Publisher Name:Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2023-09-25

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      Weight146 g
      Dimensions137 × 216 × 9 mm