| 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. |
| Abstract |
"In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley bring together a stunning collection of essays that challenge our understanding of what it means to interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts, "power" and "time," as they manifest themselves in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, and including ambitious essays on human rights, sovereignty, Islamic, European, and Indian history, slavery, capitalism, revolution, the Supreme Court, and even the Manson Family, this engaging book shows how "temporal regimes" are constituted through the shaping of power in historically specific ways. Power and Time is poised to be a game-changing, agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the most respected, innovative historians currently writing"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780226706016 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2019054895 |
| ISBN | 9780226481623 |
| ISBN | 022648162X hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
