This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts. As a phenomenon that is both elusive and fundamentally inaccessible, time is a key object of fascination. Throughout the ages, different cultures have been deeply engaged in various attempts to fill or make time by developing strategies to familiarize unknown time and to materialize and control past, present, or future time. Arguing for the perennial interest in time, especially in the unknown and unattainable dimension of the future, the contributions explore premodern ideas about eschatology and secular future, historical configurations of the perception of time and acceleration in fin-de-siècle Germany and contemporary Lagos, the formation of 'deep time' and 'timelessness' in paleontology and ethnographic museums, and the representation of time—past, present, and future alike—in music, film, and science fiction.

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Preface
Acknowledgements
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Editors and Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Time in the Making: Why All the Fuss About Time? On Time, the Unknown, and Fascination
Part I Past Futures
Chapter 2 The Old Made New: Medieval Repurposing of Prophecies
Chapter 3 ‘Wunschzeit’ Jerusalem: Rethinking the Distinction Between Time and Space in Medieval Utopias
Chapter 4 Living on the Edge of Time: Temporal Patterns and Irregularities in Byzantine Historical Apocalypses
Chapter 5 Unknown or Uncertain? Astrologers, the Church, and the Future in the Late Middle Ages
Chapter 6 ‘From the Unknown to the Known and Backwards:’ Representing and Presenting Remote Time in Nineteenth-Century Palaeontology
Part II Unknown Presents
Chapter 7 Introducing Time to Ethnographic Displays: Narrative Strategies of Revealing the Unknown in German Ethnological Museums
Chapter 8 “God’s Time Is the Best:” The Fascination with Unknown Time in Urban Transport in Lagos
Chapter 9 Perpetual Wanderers—Timeless Heroes: Gypsies in European Musical Culture
Chapter 10 The Present: An ‘Unknown Time’ in the German Kaiserreich around 1900
Part III Future Pasts
Chapter 11 The Time-Image and the Unknown in Wong Kar-wai’s Film Art
Chapter 12 Suspense in the Cinema: Knowledge and Time
Chapter 13 Futurology, Allegory, Time Travel: What Makes Science Fiction Fascinating
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