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The Surge: Temporal Anarchy and the Pursuit of Dynamic History

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Ethan Kleinberg
Wesleyan 카지노게임사이트
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카지노 게임 컬렉션
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카지노게임사이트 Club

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This talk takes up the concept of 카지노 게임 컬렉션temporal anarchy카지노 게임 컬렉션 as a counter to more conventional, orderly presentations of historicist time and in pursuit of a dynamic history. I argue that the historicist understanding of time as uniform and homogenous has suppressed alternative ways of understanding time, temporality, and access to the past resulting in pernicious political and cultural ends going from perspectivalism to parallelism to the current 카지노 게임 컬렉션post-truth카지노 게임 컬렉션 moment. I offer a different understanding of the ways the past makes itself available in the present and a new mode of history to account for this understanding. My contention is that the events of the past are both more temporally dynamic and forceful than most paradigms allow and as such require a mode of history attuned to this temporally anarchistic force. The past on this account is a Total Other but one that becomes available to us if we are attuned such that we can mediate it and make aspects available (ghosts and hauntings). The means to do so is by recognizing the moments when the past becomes available in the present for the future.  This is what I call The Surge.

Ethan Kleinberg is the Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan 카지노게임사이트 and Editor-in-Chief of History and Theory. Kleinberg's wide-ranging scholarly work spans across the fields of history, philosophy, comparative literature and religion. In particular, Kleinberg engages with the ways that the past haunts our present and presses us toward the future, advocating for a deconstructive approach to better account for this complex temporal entanglement. He is the author of Generation Existential: Martin Heidegger카지노 게임 컬렉션s Philosophy in France, 1927-61 (Cornell 카지노게임사이트 Press, 2006); Haunting History: for a deconstructive approach to the past (Stanford 카지노게임사이트 Press, 2017); and Emmanuel Levinas카지노 게임 컬렉션s Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought (Stanford 카지노게임사이트 Press, October 2021). He is co-author of the 카지노 게임 컬렉션Theses on Theory and History카지노 게임 컬렉션 with Joan Scott and Gary Wilder. His current book project extends this investigation by focusing on how what he calls 카지노 게임 컬렉션temporal anarchy카지노 게임 컬렉션카지노 게임 컬렉션the unrestrained mingling of past, present, and future카지노 게임 컬렉션 can lead to a different understanding  of history that is not restrained by what has been, but instead attracted to what can be thus pointing us toward critical political and ethical action.  The past as future, if you will, rather than a futures past.

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