Vertiginous Life
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Vertiginous Life

An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen

  1. 178 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Vertiginous Life

An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen

About this book

Vertiginous Life provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures. Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday affects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive in the uncanny elsewhen.

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Table of contents

  1. Vertiginous Life
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1. Mairi: The Nausea of Unknowingness
  6. Chapter 2. Dimitris: Rebuilding from Rubble
  7. Chapter 3. Antonis: Technology and the Elsewhen
  8. Chapter 4. Alexia: Life in Suspension
  9. Chapter 5. Aphrodite: The Captivity of Chronic Crisis
  10. Conclusion
  11. Epilogue
  12. References
  13. Index