04038nam 22007335 450 991079384740332120200406050111.01-5017-3481-410.7591/9781501734816(CKB)4100000009583198(MiAaPQ)EBC5963594(OCoLC)1108811439(MdBmJHUP)muse75881(StDuBDS)EDZ0002135964(DE-B1597)527476(DE-B1597)9781501734816(EXLCZ)99410000000958319820200406h20192019 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPrecarious Times Temporality and History in Modern German Culture /Anne FuchsIthaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]©20191 online resource (xviii, 322 pages)Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought"A Signale book."Previously issued in print: 2019.1-5017-3510-1 1-5017-3482-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Theoretical Perspectives: Temporal Anxieties in the Digital Age -- 2. Historical Perspectives: Modernism and Speed Politics -- 3. Contemporary Perspectives: Precarious Time(s) in Photography and Film -- 4. Narrating Precariousness -- Epilogue: Presentist Dystopias or the Case for Environmental Humanities -- Bibliography -- IndexIn Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and that is peculiar to our current moment. The digital age places premiums on just-in-time deliveries, continual innovation, instantaneous connectivity, and around-the-clock availability. While some celebrate this 24/7 culture, others see it as profoundly destructive to the natural rhythm of day and night-and to human happiness. Have we entered an era of a perpetual present that depletes the future and erodes our grasp of the past? Beginning its examination around 1900, when rapid modernization was accompanied by comparably intense reflection on changing temporal experience, Precarious Times provides historical depth and perspective to current debates on the "digital now." Expanding the modern discourse on time and speed, Fuchs deploys such concepts as attention, slowness and lateness to emphasize the uneven quality of time around the world.Signale. Modern German letters, cultures, and thought.Cornell scholarship online.German literature20th centuryThemes, motivesGerman literature21st centuryThemes, motivesMotion picturesGermanyHistoryTime in literatureTime in motion picturesAnxiety in literatureTime and photographyTime in artAnxiety in artmodern time regime, temporal anxiety, digital now, presentism, precariousness, speed culture.German literatureThemes, motives.German literatureThemes, motives.Motion picturesHistory.Time in literature.Time in motion pictures.Anxiety in literature.Time and photography.Time in art.Anxiety in art.830.9/33Fuchs Anne, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut737518DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910793847403321Precarious Times3707815UNINA