Hourglass dawns: the becoming of time as space – a note on the work of Agamben, Nancy and Jameson

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe question of time has troubled Continental philosophy since Immanuel Kant, through to Edmund Husserl and past his project of phenomenology expressed, and thus terminated, in the works of Heidegger and Derrida, who left traces of messianism, nihilism and apparitions of timeless time. The contemporary works of Jameson, Agamben and Nancy attempt to move past these understandings of time, specifically with regard to the problem of the global, or what it means for a world to be a global phenomenon in relation to the problem of time in its increasing homogeneity across the world. This paper provides a tracing of the dialectic of time and its transformations in its various conceptions throughout time itself, which includes a possible challenge for archaeology.