Open AccessRuminations on Time (2005–2009)
Author(s) -
Lucy Tatman
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cultural studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1837-8692
pISSN - 1446-8123
DOI - 10.5130/csr.v16i2.1707
Subject(s) - temporality , aesthetics , modality (human–computer interaction) , history , fragmentation (computing) , project commissioning , publishing , sociology , art , epistemology , literature , philosophy , computer science , human–computer interaction , operating system
Because the apocalypse did not occur, but the time of linear progress did come to a crashing halt. Because the post-modern rumours of utter temporal fragmentation seem quite silly. Because although we are very good at wearing watches, are positively wedded to our diaries, even so we seem to be suffering from a peculiar kind of temporal drift. Hhhmmm. If each era is both burdened and held loosely together by one temporal modality that figures most strongly in the cultural imagination, what happens when that temporality collapses