Temporal Politics and Banal Culture: Before the Future Conlin Peter
Temporal Politics and Banal Culture: Before the Future Conlin Peter This book addresses the absence of a strong alignment with the future in contemporary social life and explores anomalous temporal…
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Temporal Politics and Banal Culture: Before the Future Conlin Peter
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. 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. 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.
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