Name: Naturally Late: Synchronization in Socially Constructed Times
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Author: Johncock, Will
ISBN: 9781786611932

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Naturally Late: Synchronization in Socially Constructed Times

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Physical Book

Author

Will Johncock

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Language

English

Pages

252

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN13

9781786611932

Synopsis "Naturally Late: Synchronization in Socially Constructed Times"

Is time a natural reality that social symbols such as clocks and calendars merely contingently represent? Lateness protocols seemingly exhibit such contingency, for not all cultures regulate synchronization identically. Just as social/cultural time structures are interpreted to diverge from time's natural rhythm, body modifications are often presented as social productions that divert human bodies from their naturally originated, corporeal temporality. A similar separation informs climate change discourses, supposing a natural rhythm that industrialized culture has invaded, the effects of which humans might be too late to arrest. Interrogating this conceptual separation matters, given that if certain times are considered to be more natural than others, a situated politics emerges regarding the associated cultural structures. Furthermore, our personal investments in experiences of lateness, which are embedded within social time, seemingly contradict the constructionist impression that social time is merely a contingent misrepresentation of what time actually is. Through Derridian deconstruction, Merleau-Pontian phenomenology, and Bergsonian time-philosophy, complemented with voices from fields including object oriented ontology, new materialism, and new criticism, this book re-evaluates the timing of times from a philosophical perspective.

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