Time, Globalization and Human Experience: Interdisciplinary Explorations

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 4
Title Page......Page 6
Copyright Page......Page 7
Table of Contents......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgement......Page 13
1. Introduction......Page 16
Chronopolitics and temporal inequalities......Page 21
Heterotemporalities and resistance......Page 24
Materiality......Page 28
Global futures......Page 31
Summaries of the chapters......Page 33
Notes......Page 36
References......Page 37
Introduction: banal processes and their interesting consequences......Page 41
Expanding globalization, contracting sovereignty......Page 44
Temporal objects and diminished subjects......Page 48
Temporal sovereignty......Page 52
Toward a theory of temporal sovereignty for a global age......Page 54
Some conclusions......Page 57
References......Page 59
Global capitalism and the global worker......Page 62
Workers, exploitation and epistemes of time......Page 65
Time reckoning......Page 66
Temporality......Page 68
Coevalness......Page 70
Time-related templates of worker exploitation......Page 72
Labor resistance and the reclamation of time......Page 77
Note......Page 79
References......Page 80
4. Freedom 2044?: The temporality of financialization and scenario planning in Looper......Page 83
Into the loop: exploitation and bare life under biocapitalism......Page 86
(Running) out of future time: the temporality of financialization......Page 90
Retirement troubles and global turbulence......Page 91
Scenario planning and the financialized lockdown of possible worlds......Page 93
Asiatic city versus US heartland: Orientalism in Looper......Page 94
Conclusion: still dreaming the fuzzy logic of finance......Page 97
Notes......Page 99
References......Page 100
Introduction......Page 102
Pre-emption and (in)security governance in the post-9/11 era......Page 104
Imagination and exception: political implications of pre-emptive security......Page 107
Toward a conceptual critique of pre-emptive security......Page 115
Conclusion......Page 118
Notes......Page 119
References......Page 120
6. While the West sleeps: Deglobed globalization and its consequences......Page 124
The cognitive and cultural consequences of clocks......Page 125
Supranational authority over time......Page 126
Timestamps......Page 128
Leap seconds......Page 132
Why not ignore the globe in globalization?......Page 134
Misleadingly deglobed globalization......Page 136
References......Page 137
Introduction......Page 142
Conceptualizing the relationships among globalization, time, and disease......Page 143
The temporalities of contagion: the case of SARS......Page 146
Conclusion......Page 155
References......Page 156
8. The inertia of energy: Pipelines and temporal politics......Page 160
The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline and the contest over Indigenous land......Page 163
The collapse of Western civilization and the oil imaginary......Page 166
Entropy as politics......Page 169
Notes......Page 171
References......Page 173
9. Yugoslavism: History, temporality, and the search for alternative modes of political critique......Page 175
Yugoslavism......Page 178
Examining the left past......Page 180
Memory and left-wing nostalgia......Page 181
Dreaming and dreams......Page 183
Untimeliness and hope......Page 184
Note......Page 185
References......Page 186
10. Living the rhythms of the global: Time, globalization discourse, and rhythm-analysis......Page 189
Not dead yet: homogeneous, empty time and the colonized human......Page 190
Lefebvre and rhythm-analysis......Page 193
Panarchy and rhythm......Page 195
Narrative and the rhythms of the global......Page 197
“Time flaps on the mast”: Virginia Woolf and the rhythms of the everyday......Page 199
References......Page 204
11. Checked baggage: An afterward......Page 206
References......Page 210
Index......Page 211