Power and time : temporalities in conflict and the making of history /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Edelstein, Dan (Editor), Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979- (Editor), Wheatley, Natasha (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chronocenosis : An introduction to power and time / Stefanos Geroulanos, Dan Edelstein, and Natasha Wheatley
  • Part I: Temporal Pluralities in Conflict. Legal pluralism as temporal pluralism : historical rights, legal vitalism, and non-synchronous sovereignty / Natasha Wheatley
  • The invention of the Muslim Golden Age : universal history, the Arabs, science, and Islam / Marwa Elshakry
  • Rise and fall of the Sattelzeit: The Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe and the temporality of totalitarianism and genocide / Anson Rabinbach
  • A technofossil of the Anthropocene : sliding up and down temporal scales with plastic / Andrea Westermann
  • Part II: Loops, layers, assemblages. Long divided must unite, long united must divide : dynasty, histories, and the order of time in China / Zvi Ben-Dor Benite.
  • The temporal assemblage of the Nazi new man : The "empty" present, the incipient ruin, and the apocalyptic time of Lebensraum / Stefanos Geroulanos
  • Prehistory and posthistory : apes, caves, bombs, and time in Georges Bataille / Maria Stavrinaki
  • Part III: The splintered present. Brain-time experiments : acute acceleration, intensified synchronization, and the belatedness of the modern subject / Henning Schmidgen
  • Cryopower and the temporality of frozen indigenous blood samples / Emma Kowal and Joanna Radin
  • "Now is the time for Helter Skelter" : terror, temporality, and the Manson family / Claudia Verhoeven
  • Part IV: Speed(s). Legal panics, fast and slow : slavery and the constitution of empire / Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford
  • Time and the economics of the business cycle in modern capitalism / Jamie Martin
  • History and temporal sovereignty in the thought of Jawaharlal Nehru / Sunil Purushotham
  • Part V: "Already here . . . just not evenly distributed" : heterochronies of the future. Future perfect : political and emotional economies of revolutionary time / Dan Edelstein
  • The future in the US Supreme Court / Kristen Loveland
  • Commemorating the end of history : Timelessness and power in contemporary Russia / Kevin M. F. Plat.