NowHere

Space, Time, and Modernity

Roger Friedland, Deirdre Boden

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520080188
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520342095
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Political Philosophy

The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia—such events have been fundamentally affected by modern technology. As we become instant spectators of war, famine, and revolution, time and space assume new global meanings. This provocative volume presents an eclectic group of contributors who attempt to make sense of the "now" and the "here" that define the modern age. The essays, by anthropologists, religionists, geographers, linguists, sociologists, and historians, explore the temporal and spatial facets of social life. Their range is remarkable and includes English landscape painting, talk in corporations, agoraphobic women, the ecological structure of Los Angeles, the cosmology of the Holocaust, and the ritual spaces of Buddhist Japan and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The editors' introduction addresses the diversity of these empirical concerns and positions them within a rapidly expanding theoretical landscape. David Hockney's striking painting on the book jacket captures the tension between somewhere and everywhere, between space and place, now and just a moment ago—hence "nowhere" or "now/here."
The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia—such events have been fundamentally affected by modern technology. As we become instant spectators of war, famine, and revolution, time and

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• ONE NowHere: An Introduction to Space, Time and Modernity
• TWO Time Cents: The Monetization of the Workday in Comparative Perspective
• THREE Time and the Modern Family: Reproduction in the Making of History
• FOUR Postmodern Geographies: Taking Los Angeles Apart
• FIVE Cubism, Camouflage, Silence, and Democracy: A Phenomenological Approach
• SIX The Construction and Management of Sacred Time and Space: Sabta Nur in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
• SEVEN Redesigning Nature: John Constable and the Landscape of Enclosure
• EIGHT The Compulsion of Proximity
• NINE Space, Corporation, and Class: Toward a Grounded Theory
• TEN Out of Place: Gender, Public Places, and Situational Disadvantage
• ELEVEN The Israeli Memory of the Shoah: On Symbols, Rituals, and Ideological Polarization
• TWELVE Geosophia, Geognosis, and Geopiety: Orders of Significance in Japanese Representations of Space
• THIRTEEN On the Archaeology of Late Modernity
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX