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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 bring together essays that 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 "temporal regimes" are constituted through the shaping of power in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on a wide variety of subjects: human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; 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 innovative contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.
Contents
Chronocenosis: An Introduction to Power and Time
Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley
PART I Temporal Pluralities in Conflict
1 Legal Pluralism as Temporal Pluralism: Historical Rights, Legal Vitalism, and Non-Synchronous Sovereignty
Natasha Wheatley
2 The Invention of the Muslim Golden Age: Universal History, the Arabs, Science, and Islam
Marwa Elshakry
3 Rise and Fall of the Sattelzeit: The Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe and the Temporality of Totalitarianism and Genocide
Anson Rabinbach
4 A Technofossil of the Anthropocene: Sliding Up and Down Temporal Scales with Plastic
Andrea Westermann
PART II Loops, Layers, Assemblages
5 Long Divided Must Unite, Long United Must Divide: Dynasty, Histories, and the Orders of Time in China
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
6 The Temporal Assemblage of the Nazi New Man: The "Empty" Present, the Incipient Ruin, and the Apocalyptic Time of Lebensraum
Stefanos Geroulanos
7 Prehistory and Posthistory: Apes, Caves, Bombs, and Time in Georges Bataille
Maria Stavrinaki
PART III The Splintered Present
8 Brain-Time Experiments: Acute Acceleration, Intensified Synchronization, and the Belatedness of the Modern Subject
Henning Schmidgen
9 Cryopower and the Temporality of Frozen Indigenous Blood Samples
Emma Kowal and Joanna Radin
10 "Now Is the Time for Helter Skelter": Terror, Temporality, and the Manson Family
Claudia Verhoeven
PART IV Speed(s)
11 Legal Panics, Fast and Slow: Slavery and the Constitution of Empire
Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford
12 Time and the Economics of the Business Cycle in Modern Capitalism
Jamie Martin
13 History and Temporal Sovereignty in the Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru
Sunil Purushotham
PART V "Already Here . . . Just Not Evenly Distributed": Heterochronies of the Future
14 Future Perfect: Political and Emotional Economies of Revolutionary Time
Dan Edelstein
15 The Future in the US Supreme Court
Kristen Loveland
16 Commemorating the End of History: Timelessness and Power in Contemporary Russia
Kevin M. F. Platt
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index of Temporal Terms