108 Pages
by
Routledge
108 Pages
by
Routledge
108 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book addresses the absence of a strong alignment with the future in contemporary social life and explores anomalous temporal experience as a way to expand political imaginations. In the aftermath of the modern myth of progress, it argues we have entered into a kind of dystopia—brutal or seemingly benign—of the continual present that is resistant to systemic change but is nevertheless... Read more
Introduction
1. Into logistic grey zones
2. Obsolete wastes of time: Boredom by way of alien junk consciousness
3. The enigma of Kitsault
1. Into logistic grey zones
2. Obsolete wastes of time: Boredom by way of alien junk consciousness
3. The enigma of Kitsault
Biography
Peter Conlin is a writer and researcher based in Birmingham, UK. He is a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham, has completed postdoctoral research at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and is a co-facilitator of the Boredom Network research group. He is currently developing the Time Lapse podcast which is an interview series with theorists, activists and artists on temporal politics of the twenty-first century.
