Screen LibrarySubjects of modernity : time-space, disciplines, margins /
This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, it investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned und...
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Manchester University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Manchester : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Theory for a global age
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| Summary: |
This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, it investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under modernity. Crucially, it understands these antinomies not as errors, but as constitutive elements of modern worlds. The book questions routine portrayals of homogeneous time and antinomian blueprints of cultural space, while acknowledging the production of time and space by social subjects. Ins |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-216) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781526105110 152610511X |
| Index Number: | HM654 |
| CLC: | K103 |
| Call Number: | K103/D814 |
| Contents: |
Subjects of modernity: an introduction -- Intimations of modernity: time and space -- Maps of modernity: antinomies and enticements -- Disciplines of modernity: entanglements and ambiguities -- Margins of modernity: identities and incitements -- Modern subjects: an epilogue. |