Temporal Experiments
Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature
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Temporal Experiments
Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature
About This Book
Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature conducts an expansive exploration of different modes of timing. Its seven chapters pursue the question of time as it is embodied in key figures that shape both aesthetic and pragmatic life. Working closely with literary, visual, and musical artworks, the book aims to provoke new ways of engaging with the question of time. It treats artworks as experiments that launch temporal figures, and that test out the possibilities and connections these different figures enable. Thus, the book seizes upon works by artists like Anne Carson, King Tubby, and Raymond Queneau as opportunities for thinking through the valence of both existing and untested temporal configurations. What other modes of shaping time, it asks, might be conjured out of the viewing of an Omer Fast film, the reading of a poem by Baudelaire, or of a novel by Tom McCarthy? In treating artworks as temporal experiments, this book stresses the fact that artworks always experiment with the raw materials of time, fashioning it or refashioning it into novel combinations. This book follows the imperatives of these experiments in order to advance a nuanced understanding of the way time insinuates itself into all aspects of social and intellectual life.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: Aesthetic Approaches to Time
- Part 1 Seven Temporal Experiments
- Part 2 Seven Temporal Keywords: Theoretical Briefs
- Index