backward and forward in time. By establishing particular rhythms through temporal play, an otherwise chaotic future is given a certain expected direction. In McDonald’s words, ‘“temporal play” means that time has become manipulable and that it has been put
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Crafting Future Selves
Time-Tricking and the Limits of Temporal Play in Children’s Online Film-Making
Espen Helgesen
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 87–99 (13 total)
Something Happened to the Future
Reconstructing Temporalities in Dutch Parliamentary Debate, 1814–2018
Joris van Eijnatten and Pim Huijnen
“All history is bunk,” the founder of the industrial Ford empire was wont to say, demonstrating how superficial pure, one-sided market thinking is. The past has formed our present and offers us a glimpse of the future, even though our
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 52–82 (31 total)
Spirit of the Future
Movement, Kinetic Distribution, and Personhood among Siberian Eveny
Olga Ulturgasheva
personhood precipitates a future event through the medium of a narrative about one’s own future. Specifically, I explore how the framework of ‘becoming’ and the transformability of personhood can assist us in understanding the ways that the future is
Competing for the Future
Play, Drama, and Rank in Amazonia
Natalia Buitron
competitive play-frame that is both structured and pleasurable, they enact a different future for their communities. How then should we understand the paradoxically competitive character of these festivals, and what does competition do in the Shuar context
Erland Mårald and Erik Westholm
Introduction This article explores how the future has been approached in Swedish forestry over the last 150 years. While the history of forestry in Sweden is generally well researched (e.g., Antonson and Jansson 2011 ; Eliasson 2002 ), the
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 1–21 (21 total)
A World in the Making
Discovering the Future in the Hispanic World
Javier Fernández-Sebastián
Translator : Mark Hounsell
We lack histories of the internal time-sense, of the changing beat in men’s experience of the rhythms of perception … We also lack a history of the future tense. George Steiner, In Bluebeard’s Castle My aim is to provide an overview of certain
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 110–132 (23 total)
Actualising History
Responsibilities with Regard to the Future in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Aamir Aziz and Frans Willem Korsten
we saw previously, in the context of censorship. Since the play is aimed at altering the course of history, hence leading to another future, we can ask how this relates to the allegorical form Miller chose. This implies having a closer look at the
John Keane
Why History? Reports of the coming death of democracy may be greatly exaggerated, but most thinkers of democracy are well aware of the mounting global evidence that bright hopes for its future are currently fading. Observers are pinning the
In Democratic Theory
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 96–110 (15 total)
Emptiness and its futures
Staying and leaving as tactics of life in Latvia
Dace Dzenovska
concrete governments in power, concrete policy measures, or corrupt politicians. It began to seem that a future different from the one inherent in the oppressive present was possible. Amid this proliferation of hope for a global spring, Latvia stood out. It
Can Time Be Tricked?
A Theoretical Introduction
Felix Ringel
used for educational purposes. Two vocational training centres have opened for future workers for Bremerhaven’s currently stumbling offshore wind-farm industry. The future electricians are to benefit from the city’s enormous reindustrialization efforts
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 22–31 (10 total)