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The End of Temporality

Summary/Abstract: The author states that the moderns were obsessed with the secret of time, and the postmoderns with that of space. He thinks that even if such a shift from a temporal to a spatial dominant be acknowledged, it would seem momentous enough to demand further explanation. The contemporary situation has been characterized as a dramatic and alarming shrinkage of existential time and the reduction to a present that hardly qualifies as such any longer, given the virtual effacement of that past and future that can alone define a present in the first place. He claims that a reduction to the present and to the body is to be seen as a structural effect of the temporality of our socioeconomic system or, in other words, of postmodernity as such, of late capitalism. It is the system that generates a specific temporality and that then expresses that temporality through the cultural forms and symptoms.

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