Re/Defining the Matrix: Reflections on Time - Space - Agency (Transpects)

ISBN 10: 0820487066 / ISBN 13: 9780820487069

Published by Peter Lang Publishing, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Re/Defining the Matrix: Reflections on Time - Space - Agency (Transpects)
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820487066
• ISBN 13: 9780820487069
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Spatio-temporal regimes have undergone a series of significant changes in the past 150 years or so, from the classically modern implication of a standard world time with its grid of 24 time zones in 1884 to the time-space compression ushered in by global capitalism and the more recent inauguration of a logic of a logic of global imperial interventionism. Historically, theoretical and performative resistances and counter-aesthetics to the modernist regime of empty homogeneous time (and space) are well documented. While this kind of critique is in many pockets still very much on the agenda, the hegemonic doctrines and realities of neoliberalism engender the necessity of new oppositional forms of practice and agency while simultaneously rendering such new forms impossible. The contributions in this volume engage critically and from current theoretical perspectives with questions of spatio-temporal regimes and subjectivities, both recent and historical.

About the Author

Anke Bartels teaches English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Magdeburg. Reinhold Wandel lectures on the Methodology of Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the same university. Dirk Wiemann teaches English Literature and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Tubingen. All the three editors were students and colleagues of Bernd-Peter Lange's at various stages of his career.

Agata Stopińska, Anke Bartels and Raj Kollmorgen all teach at the University of Magdeburg (Germany) and are on the board of the Transdisciplinary Forum Magdeburg which, among other activities, organises the annual Transforma conference.

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