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dc.contributor.authorFuchs, Anne
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-27T10:40:41Z
dc.date.available2024-03-27T10:40:41Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88750
dc.description.abstractInPrecarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and that is peculiar to our current moment. The digital age places premiums on just-in-time deliveries, continual innovation, instantaneous connectivity, and around-the-clock availability. While some celebrate this 24/7 culture, others see it as profoundly destructive to the natural rhythm of day and night—and to human happiness. Have we entered an era of a perpetual present that depletes the future and erodes our grasp of the past? Beginning its examination around 1900, when rapid modernization was accompanied by comparably intense reflection on changing temporal experience, Precarious Times provides historical depth and perspective to current debates on the "digital now." Expanding the modern discourse on time and speed, Fuchs deploys such concepts as attention, slowness and lateness to emphasize the uneven quality of time around the world.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSignale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thoughten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticismen_US
dc.subject.otherModern time regime, temporal anxiety, acceleration, precariousness, speed culture,slowness, lateness, attention, presentism, digital now, Eigenzeit, photography, film,modernism, contemporary German literatureen_US
dc.titlePrecarious Timesen_US
dc.title.alternativeTemporality and History in Modern German Cultureen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781501735103en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781501734823en_US
oapen.pages344en_US


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