fprieto's temporality [4 articles]

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As we are approaching our fin de sielce, issues of time and memory haunt contemporary culture. Musuems and memorials are being constructed rapidly, as if there were no tomorrow. Contemporary art and literature focuses on memory and the past, rather than claiming radical breakthroughs into some unknown future. With the recent resurgence of nationalism and issues of national identity, the political future, too, seems to fold itself back into the past rather than offering a bold vision of the 21st century. ...

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Television is the medium of time. Television news continually recontextualizes times as it remediates the past in the present. What has yet to be more fully implicated, however, is the modulation - the variance in pace - of the temporal features of the televisual environment. I consider some of the sites of the temporization of war by television news through the interplay of sound and vision, temporal references in television news talk, and in the recombination of previously 'used' news fragments ...

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In this remarkably wide-ranging book Professor Lowenthal analyses the ever-changing role of the past in shaping our lives. A heritage at once nurturing and burdensome, the past allows us to make sense of the present whilst imposing powerful constraints upon the way that present develops. Some aspects of the past are celebrated, others expunged, as each generation reshapes its legacy in line with current needs. Drawing on all the arts, the humanities and the social sciences, the author uses sources as ...

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There is a certain evanescence to contemporary experience. A shortening of temporal horizons, diminishing attention spans, and a saturation of time and place, are all said to be characteristics of our mediated age. A key consequence of these emerging new structures of temporality' (Huyssen, 1995: 253) is a transformation in our relationship with the past. Memory' is in itself a contradictory experience of time as it does not involve the retrieval of some past moment but, rather, an assembling of a ...