Temporal Regimes: Materiality, Politics, Technology

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Temporal Regimes provides a theoretical framework for understanding the temporal structures of society; a conceptually rich, empirically nuanced and culturally embodied account of temporal phenomena in contemporary world. What does it imply temporal regimes? How the everyday life as well as the global mobilities coordination requires temporal underpinnings? The answers to these questions mean more than simply understanding the general thesis on acceleration or space-time compression on the one hand; but also, a micro-multiple-localised time experience by gender, class or age, on the other. They also mean understanding in an integrative way the very structural temporalities within the everyday lived, embodied and situated ones. They require both a robust and flexible epistemic analysis considering their material bedrock through political and technological forefront dimensions. Advancing a rigorous, well-grounded theoretical understanding, and offering a useful way to analytically conceptualise the temporal dynamics on our societies, this book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars enquiring a rich set of topics ranging from time and politics, new materialism, conceptual history as well as technology, collective action and social change. Cover Endorsement Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Figures Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Towards Temporal Regimes A Quest for Integrated Temporal Studies Temporal Regimes Relevance Regimes Meaning The Temporal Regimes Approach Towards Temporal Regimes Notes References Chapter 1 Temporal Regimes Social Theory Gap: a Quest for Temporal Regimes Why Regime? Critical Comments On Regimes: Towards a Temporal Notion of Regime Regimes and Social Theory Conceptualising Temporal Regimes The ‘Time’ of Temporal Regimes Temporal Regimes: Three Major Characteristics Notes References Chapter 2 Temporal Politics: Politicisation of Time and History Temporal Political Dynamics A Material Time Temporalisation of History as Politics of Futurisation Projecting History Politics Over Life as Timepolitics Time of Politics: Democracy, Acceleration, (De)synchrony Towards a Temporal Regime of Politics Notes References Chapter 3 Temporal Technologies and Technologies of Time ‘Tempo Ex Machina’ Technology Relevance for Time Studies Instrumentalisation, Homogenisation, One-Dimensionalisation: Critical Thoughts On Technology The Deterritorialisation of Time: Abstraction, Standardisation, Universalisation Digital Temporality: Virtuality and Instantaneity Analogue Moment: Shrinking Space–time Barriers Digital Moment: Shaping Instantaneity Technological Temporal Regime Notes References Chapter 4 Conceptualising Future(s): Progress, Utopia, Acceleration Setting the Sight Ahead Progress Utopia: From ‘not-Here’ to ‘not-Yet’ Utopia and Fantasy: Towards Acceleration Acceleration: the ‘Repetition of Change’ Utopia, Progress, Acceleration: a Temporal Regime Forwards Notes References Conclusions: Between Homogeneity and Heterogeneity – Simultaneous But Non-Synchronic Times General and Particular: Two Faces of the Same Coin Towards Heterogeneous Temporalities Global Temporalities Simultaneous But Non-Synchronic Times Notes References Index