Objects of Time

This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time-it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization.

Auteur
Kevin Birth is a professor of Anthropology at Queen's College, CUNY.

Résumé
This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than timeit is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization.

Contenu
The Material Invention of Time A Necromantic Device, or How Clocks Think Calendrical Uniformity versus Planned Uncanniness Polyrhythmic Temporalities (Confounding the Artifacts) Globeness: Time and the Embodied, Biological Consequences of Globalization Creeping Cognitive Homochronicity and the End of the Time of Earth