Jon May, Nigel Thrift (eds.): Timespace. Geographies of Temporality (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · actor-network theory, anthropology, buddhism, cultural geography, cultural studies, feminism, media studies, postmodern, psychology, sociology, time
Timespace undermines the old certainties of time and space by arguing that these dimensions do not exist singly, but only as a hybrid process term. The issue of space has perhaps been over-emphasised and it is essential that processes of everyday existence, such as globalisation and environmental issues and also notions such as gender, race and ethnicity, are looked at with a balanced time-space analysis.
The social and cultural consequences of this move are traced through a series of studies which deploy different perspectives – structural, phenomenological and even Buddhist – in order to make things meet up. The contributors provide an overview of the history of time and introduce the concepts of time and space together, across a range of disciplines. The themes discussed are of importance for cultural geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural and media studies, and psychology.
Publisher Routledge, 2001
Volume 13 of Critical geographies
ISBN 0415180848, 9780415180849
323 pages
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Comments (2)Marcus Boon: In Praise of Copying (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · anthropology, buddhism, copyright, intellectual property
“This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world we live in.
In spite of the laws, stigmas, and anxieties attached to it, the word “copying” permeates contemporary culture, shaping discourse on issues from hip hop to digitization to gender reassignment, and is particularly crucial in legal debates concerning intellectual property and copyright. Yet as a philosophical concept, copying remains poorly understood. Working comparatively across cultures and times, Marcus Boon undertakes an examination of what this word means-historically, culturally, philosophically-and why it fills us with fear and fascination. He argues that the dominant legal-political structures that define copying today obscure much broader processes of imitation that have constituted human communities for ages and continue to shape various subcultures today. Drawing on contemporary art, music and film, the history of aesthetics, critical theory, and Buddhist philosophy and practice, In Praise of Copying seeks to show how and why copying works, what the sources of its power are, and the political stakes of renegotiating the way we value copying in the age of globalization.”
Publisher Harvard University Press, 2010
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License
ISBN 0674047834, 9780674047839
304 pages
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