Objects of Time : How Things Shape Temporality
Kevin K. Birth
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (223 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Material Invention of Time; 2 A Necromantic Device, or How Clocks Think; 3 Calendrical Uniformity versus Planned Uncanniness; 4 Polyrhythmic Temporalities (Confounding the Artifacts); 5 Globeness: Time and the Embodied, Biological Consequences of Globalization; 6 Creeping Cognitive Homochronicity and the End of the Time of Earth; Bibliography; Index. - This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time-it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization.
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| ISBN | 9781137017871. - 9781137017888
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