Power And Time: Temporalities In Conflict And The Making Of History Power And Time

Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts—"power" and "time"—as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how power is constituted through the shaping of temporal regimes in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, Chinese, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; the Anthropocene; and even the Manson Family. Power and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the world's most respected and original contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 2 Title - Complete......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Chronocenosis: An Introduction to Power and Time-Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley......Page 10 Part I. Temporal Pluralities in Conflict......Page 60 1. Legal Pluralism as Temporal Pluralism: Historical Rights, Legal Vitalism, and Non-Synchronous Sovereignty-Natasha Wheatley......Page 62 2. The Invention of the Muslim Golden Age: Universal History, the Arabs, Science, and Islam-Marwa Elshakry......Page 89 3. Rise and Fall of the Sattelzeit: The Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe and the Temporality of Totalitarianism and Genocide-Anson Rabinbach......Page 112 4. A Technofossil of the Anthropocene: Sliding Up and Down Temporal Scales with Plastic-Andrea Westermann......Page 131 Part II. Loops, Layers, Assemblages......Page 154 5. Long Divided Must Unite, Long United Must Divide: Dynasty, Histories, and the Orders of Time in China-Zvi Ben-Dor Benite......Page 156 6. The Temporal Assemblage of the Nazi New Man: The “Empty” Present, the Incipient Ruin, and the Apocalyptic Time of Lebensraum-Stefanos Geroulanos......Page 182 7. Prehistory and Posthistory: Apes, Caves, Bombs, and Time in Georges Bataille-Maria Stavrinaki......Page 210 Part III. The Splintered Present......Page 230 8. Brain-Time Experiments: Acute Acceleration, Intensified Synchronization, and the Belatedness of the Modern Subject-Henning Schmidgen......Page 232 9. Cryopower and the Temporality of Frozen Indigenous Blood Samples-Emma Kowal and Joanna Radin......Page 258 10. “Now Is the Time for Helter Skelter”: Terror, Temporality, and the Manson Family-Claudia Verhoeven......Page 279 Part IV. Speed(s)......Page 302 11. Legal Panics, Fast and Slow: Slavery and the Constitution of Empire-Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford......Page 304 12. Time and the Economics of the Business Cycle in Modern Capitalism-Jamie Martin......Page 326 13. History and Temporal Sovereignty in the Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru-Sunil Purushotham......Page 344 Part V. “Already Here Just Not Evenly Distributed”: Heterochronies of the Future......Page 364 14. Future Perfect: Political and Emotional Economies of Revolutionary Time-Dan Edelstein......Page 366 15. The Future in the US Supreme Court-Kristen Loveland......Page 388 16. Commemorating the End of History: Timelessness and Power in Contemporary Russia-Kevin M. F. Platt......Page 409 Acknowledgments......Page 430 Contributors......Page 432 Index of Temporal Terms......Page 434 "In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley bring together a stunning collection of essays that challenge our understanding of what it means to interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts, "power" and "time," as they manifest themselves in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, and including ambitious essays on human rights, sovereignty, Islamic, European, and Indian history, slavery, capitalism, revolution, the Supreme Court, and even the Manson Family, this engaging book shows how "temporal regimes" are constituted through the shaping of power in historically specific ways. Power and Time is poised to be a game-changing, agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the most respected, innovative historians currently writing"-- Provided by publisher Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, the editors challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts - 'power' and 'time' - as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how power is constituted through the shaping of temporal regimes in historically specific ways