This book analyzes how new technologies transformed life and thought between two periods, 1880-1920 and 1980-2020, with a focus on temporal experiences of past, present, future and the spatial experiences of form, distance, and direction.
This book analyzes how new technologies transformed life and thought between two periods, 1880-1920 and 1980-2020, with a focus on temporal experiences of past, present, future and the spatial experiences of form, distance, and direction.
Stephen Kern is an Honorary Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. He has authored The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 ; The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns; A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought; and The Modernist Novel: A Critical Introduction.
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Introduction 1. THE NATURE OF TIME: Number Texture Order 2. PAST: Length Force Value Retrieval 3. PRESENT: Spatially Expanded Present Temporally Lengthened Present Cognitively Thickened Present 4. FUTURE: Weather Forecasting Genetic Disease Climate Change The End of the Universe The Clock of the Long Now 5. PACE: Travel Communication Production Lifestyle 6. THE NATURE OF SPACE: Number Texture Order 7. FORM: Self Nation 8. DISTANCE: Sociology Geopolitics Economics Social Life Environment 9. DIRECTION: East-West Axis The Cold War North-South Axis Up-Down Axis Conclusion
Introduction 1. THE NATURE OF TIME: Number Texture Order 2. PAST: Length Force Value Retrieval 3. PRESENT: Spatially Expanded Present Temporally Lengthened Present Cognitively Thickened Present 4. FUTURE: Weather Forecasting Genetic Disease Climate Change The End of the Universe The Clock of the Long Now 5. PACE: Travel Communication Production Lifestyle 6. THE NATURE OF SPACE: Number Texture Order 7. FORM: Self Nation 8. DISTANCE: Sociology Geopolitics Economics Social Life Environment 9. DIRECTION: East-West Axis The Cold War North-South Axis Up-Down Axis Conclusion
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