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. By using ethnographic and historical data, the bookargues that we must recognize the cognitive effects of our timekeeping devices, and that we must also recognize that they do not adequately capture many important aspects of time or life. INDICE: The Material Invention of Time.A Necromantic Device, or How ClocksThink.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.
- ISBN: 978-1-1370-1788-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 222
- Fecha Publicación: 04/09/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido