Mode Of Temporality Research Articles

The Black Gay Male Image under Siege

This essay discusses Isaac Julien's film Looking for Langston alongside 1980s Black British political culture, in which visual culture played a significant part. Focusing on the role of the image in that time and place, the article reads the embodied performances of waiting, use of the montage, and constructed scenes of Black queer lifeworlds, past and present, as challenging the linear modes of temporality that have confined Black politics to a perpetual state of deferment and the modern notion of vision under which the Black gay male image remains under siege.

Lost Daughters and Sunken Ships

This essay develops the idea of salvage as a material practice around ships’ cargo and as an archival epistemology. Using a legal court case concerning 43 million dollars worth of silver bars salvaged from the wreck of the SS Tilawa, a website constructed by the son of one of the survivors of the wreck, and the Facebook story of drowned South African cadet Akhona Marara Felicity Geveza, the essay centers the nonevent that unfolded in the wake of the supposed catastrophe. It focuses on the role of economic extraction in creating the historically entangled Indian and African diasporas. The piece insists on salvage as a material practice, as a methodology, and as a mode of temporality that oscillates between the cacophony of a present and the silence of shadowy depths. The threading throughout the essay of the autobiographical, mainly through readings of the author's Indian father's unpublished memoirs as he journeyed from India to Pretoria, stresses the role of misremembering and the tangibility of an archive contained in pillowcases and written in fading ink.

On the Role of Speech In Psychoanalysis: Revisiting Lacan's "Function and Field".

A number of underutilized concepts in Lacan's "Function and Field of Language and Speech in Psychoanalysis" are examined with an eye to rendering them accessible and practicable to analysts from outside the Lacanian tradition. The concepts of empty and full speech are discussed, along with the notions of the subject of the unconscious, and speaking as itself a mode of intersubjectivity. Attention is afforded the future-oriented mode of psychic temporality that Lacan argues pertains to psychoanalytic practice (that of the future anterior tense, the standpoint from which analysands situate themselves in respect of what they "will have been"). These concepts are then linked to technical initiatives-such as punctuation (the "editorial" role the analyst plays in reference to the analysand's speech) and scansion (the use of suspension, interruption, or cutting to highlight facets of that speech). These techniques can be read as extensions of Freud's fundamental rule of free association insofar as they aim to disrupt defensive ego narratives, engage unconscious processes, and draw analysands' attention, in a potentially transformative manner, to their speech and what it does.

Three Versions of Social Science in Late Eighteenth-Century France

The term science sociale was first employed by Mirabeau père in 1767, not Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès in 1789, as historians until now believed. Taking this discovery as its starting point, this article examines the ways in which the idea of a science of society was successively conceptualized in the late eighteenth century by Mirabeau, Sieyès, and Nicolas de Condorcet. Situating their ideas in the context of evolving discussions over the reform of the French state, it argues that they developed three different versions of social science, and that these reflected different attempts to answer the question of how to achieve collective prosperity, justice, and happiness under modern conditions. This article further highlights the changing modes of historical temporality that informed those approaches, which shifted from a focus on the social forms of a mythical past, to a concern with the prevailing norms of the present, to an emphasis, finally, on the likely developments of an ever-perfecting future. In doing so, it shows that the history of early French social science is best understood not as a process of gradual advancement, but rather as one of serial reinvention.

Хронохакинг: между мысленным экспериментом и девиациями цифровых решений

The article deals with the phenomenon of chronohacking, hacking of time in different modes of digital temporality. The author considers chronohacking as a result of the expansion of biohacking practices of civil science into neuroscience. Methodological basis of the study is the STS paradigm, the working approach is the Laturnian actor-network theory, which allows to fix a variety of networks of actors formed due to various ways of measuring time. Digital temporality is considered as a set of digital chronopolitics, time management modes of various activities in environments formed by digital resources. The epistemic and praxeological possibility of chronohacking, according to the author, is set by two poles, theoretical and technological. The theoretical pole is a thought experiment as a simulation of impossible or unlikely situations. Within the framework of a thought experiment, ideas are accumulated about how social reality changes in the conditions of changes in the basic objective characteristics of time, to what social consequences the difference in the course and direction of time will lead. The technological pole is the development of specific digital resources of the brain training industry used to calibrate the perception of time, somatic training of immersion in a specific temporal context. As a case study of the brain training industry, which includes neurohacking developments, the computer game EndeavorRX is used – a medicinal agent for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The development of this industry itself increases the number of disagreements and new compromises between science, civil science and consumers, an important role in this process is played by “anecdotal evidence” about deviations in the use of neurotechnologies, the epistemic status of which is close to the thought experiment in terms of non-verifiability.

Plavmagaziny Obskogo Severa: landshafty mobilnosti i rezhimy temproralnosti

Floating shops are an important part of the social landscape and life in northern villages located on water traffic ways. The role of the latter is especially important for settlements in the Ob North, where the “Northern supply haul” (deliveries of goods to the Northern Territories) has always been carried out from the south by the Ob-Irtysh River Shipping Company. Floating shops were actively used during the oil and gas development of the Ob North in the late Soviet period, but their “golden age” came in the 1990–2000s, when private entrepreneurs created flotillas of floating shops, which became an important factor in ensuring transport accessibility and improving the socio-economic status of local communities. The study is based on the materials of a field expedition trip conducted in the summer of 2019 in the water area of the Middle and Lower Ob. The conceptual framework of the study is built on the basis of the social philosophy of Latour, Urry and Law, with its characteristic axiomatics of a heterogeneous, hybrid world in constant motion, and with an orientation toward the study of networked, mobile, and variable forms of social life. In this article, special attention is paid to the use of the landscape conditions and affordanсes for the formation and functioning of the mobile trade infrastructure. In the present case, we observe the elimination of borders between the landscape and the transport infrastructure until their merger into a unified functional system in the terminology of Ingold. An essential condition for the success of this system is a spatio-temporal synchronization of the information, commodity-money, and raw flows achieved by the hybrid nature of the floating shop’s mode of temporality. This case offers opportunities for the theoretical conceptualization of the interconnection between mobility, landscape, and modes of temporality.

Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder in the Leftovers

Abstract In Tom Perrotta’s novel, The Leftovers (2011), and the TV series (2014–2017) based on the novel, 2% (140 million) of the world’s population vanish into thin air. The event constitutes a temporal rift that divides history into Before and After and inaugurates a new mode of temporality, marked by a break with a clock-time-based economy and a yearning for the ultimate end. This new mode of temporality is accompanied by the shattering of the individual sense of being-in-time. The essay focuses on the altered experience of time both on individual and collective levels, a condition that constitutes a kind of post-apocalyptic stress disorder. The characters’ reactions to the traumatic experience demonstrate that the inexplicability of the apocalyptic event and duration without closure are psychologically intolerable. As closure is impossible, they cannot work through the trauma, remaining trapped in the past event and the present anticipation of the ultimate annihilation while the future horizon becomes obliterated.

Sustainable practice: The future mode of temporality in fashion

Fashion is indicative of time and, serving as the interpretive and representational forms of a society, is measured against the cyclical rhythms of trend diffusion and style adoption. This article examines the function of time within the framework of historical research, reviewing the construction and translation of contemporary fashion. The temporality of material objects is further probed by an analysis of the sociocultural development of current sustainable practices to grasp the affective nature of time and its relationship to the fashion system. With an overview of emerging sustainable design practices, the relationship between time and meaning creation is critically examined, analysed and discussed. The social production of design and its utilization of the body-as-space are presented in relation to the social construction of time, explicated as part of a subjective, embodied experience. This article presents a new modality of time in how it is articulated, imitated, reproduced and reinterpreted through material culture and future sustainable practices.

Trauma, time and information

PurposeIn this article the author would like to discuss information and the causal-temporal models as discussed in trauma theory and reports from trauma therapy. The article discusses two modes of temporality and the role of narrative explanations in informing the subject as to their past and present.Design/methodology/approachConceptual analysis.FindingsInformation in trauma has different meanings, partly as a result of different senses of temporality that make up explanations of trauma in trauma theory. One important meaning is that of explanation itself as a cause or a therapeutic cure for trauma.Research limitations/implicationsThe research proposes that trauma and trauma theory need to be understood in terms of the role of explanation, with explanation being understood as persuasion. This follows the historical genealogy of trauma theory from its origins in hypnosis and psychoanalysis.Originality/valueThe article examines the possibility of unconscious information and its effects in forming psychological subjectivity.

Time and Temporality: M. Heidegger`s Interpretation versus H. Bergson’s Intuition

The issue of the postmodern conceptualization of temporality is realized in a number of different fields of science and scientific schools. At the same time the relationship between discourse of temporality as theory and discursive practices of temporal modes is widely represented both in "high" and popular culture. As a result, classical concepts and traditional notions have been abandoned with the consequent predominance of plurality of meanings and variability of senses, which opens theoretical space for examining time and temporality both in modernity and postmodernity. 
 The aim of theorizing temporality in this article is presented as conceptual reconstruction of temporality in Heidegger`s and Bergson`s ideas who, while working approximately at the same period, addressed temporality from different standpoints; however, both laid the foundation for the postmodern conceptual apparatus of researching temporality. The attempts of analyzing temporality also include their most influential approaches to the interaction of "interpretation" and "intuition" in the post-paradigmatic "drift" under the "postmodern conditions". The methods of the analysis are stipulated by the interdisciplinary character of the research, which demands complex approaches and systematic investigation with the bias on phenomenological, hermeneutic and post-structural methods. 
 The scientific novelty of the research lies in the reconstruction of the notion and models of temporality in Heidegger`s and Bergson`s conceptions with the accent on the "volumetrical" reflections of both scientists, which include the dialogue relations in their creating meanings and concept, the dialogism (M. Bakhtin) in painting the polyphonic picture of the world. At present, temporality is often used both as a flexible notion and a kind of epiphenomenon of time, occupying mid-positions between the absolute time and the relative time. Heidegger accentuates the notional character of time, however using the term "phenomenon" in some cases, as for "Bergsonism" duration is presented as a notion in its conceptual development (Deleuze). According to Heidegger, all philosophic propositions are temporal ones; still he obviously could not have introduced his "finite temporalization" without Bergson`s claim of the ontological priority of duration. Though in the postmodern theory it is accepted that the unprecedented stress on temporality is due to Heidegger, the recognition should go back to Bergson for having transformed the classical modes of time and temporality and traditional approaches to their conceptualization.

Fossil modernity: The materiality of acceleration, slow violence, and ecological futures

This article seeks to materialize social theories of modern temporalities. It proposes a tempo-material analysis of carbon resources like coal, oil, and gas to illuminate how fossil materialities both underpin and undermine modern temporalities and introduce the notion of fossil modernity to evoke an understanding of the modern composed of multiple conflicting modes of material temporality. Fossil resources (fossil fuels and petrochemical substances) drive the pace and progressive perspective of modernity. The residuals of these resources (CO2, plastic waste, and petrochemical toxins) confront societies with long-lasting ecological damage. Fossil fuels helped to produce the expectation of growth and endless possibility. Fossil residuals create a horizon of ecological liabilities in which past options have become future obligations. This renders the pretences of “modernization” understood as a process of constant renewal and innovation problematic. The article argues that modern societies cannot simply overcome their material–temporal predicaments through “decarbonization” because even after a shift to solar power, organic agriculture, and sustainable plastics, the fossil past will continue to influence, inform, and incite social operations. The article thus shows how different responses to the problems of fossil modernity need to go back to and emerge from the material residues of the past: this goes for bio-capitalist projects seeking to “recycle” the entropic temporality of fossil residuals as well as for environmental justice movements that decipher these residuals as indexes of social asymmetries and call for socio-ecological “redistribution.”

Catatonic Futures and Post-Apocalyptic Capital

What does late capitalism’s mode of temporality reveal about the logic linked to its mode of production? This article establishes a dialogue between theoretical works concerned with this question and Jeff Noon’s speculative fiction novel Falling out of Cars. By drawing on Marxist criticism in the works of Fredric Jameson and Gilles Deleuzeand Felix Guattari, it argues that Falling out of Cars develops a catatonic mode of temporality that critically challenges these authors’ diagnosis of schizophrenia as the cultural logic of late capitalism. Noon’s novel offers a dystopian version of the future in which catatonic subjects function as the norm for the system’s optimal operation. The catatonic temporality of the novel emerges as the logic underlying this transformation, namely, as the passive assimilation of the individual to the system’s economic rationale, which no longer needs human agency in order to operate. Falling out of Cars does not only deploy these narrative techniques on a purely aesthetic basis, but explicitly links them to the objective conditions of the world they aim to represent. In this sense, Noon’s novel suggests catatonia as the dominant logic leading to capitalism’s terminal stage in which individuals no longer possess agency to take control of their lives.

Queer densities in Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You: narrative, memory, corporeality

ABSTRACTMuch contemporary queer US literature aims at physical and metaphorical density to write against the systematic subjugation and marginalisation of queer lives, the lingering inequalities of LGBTQIA+ people, and the disintegration of alternative spaces and networks. In response to the fragility of safe queer environments in US culture, novels such as Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You display density, materiality and compaction. Texts like this utilise and deploy condensed narrative forms, thickening depictions of the personal and cultural memory, as well as a material attention to the body. This article moves away from the dominant mode of temporality that has defined queer studies for some time to think more particularly about memory and its relation to narrative and corporeality. By concentrating on Greenwell’s novel, this article will show how personal memories of emerging gay subjectivities are entwined in broader queer cultural memories.

The Artist in and of the Work

This paper will explore the problematic link between biography and literature as it is self-consciously demonstrated by Stephen’s theory about Shakespeare in the ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses. I argue how Stephen’s construction of the link between Shakespeare’s life and his work both illuminates and repeats a larger critical gesture between biography and literature. This is based on a mode of hermeneutical temporality which sees the present moment as containing within itself temporal fullness to be realised in a teleological fashion. However, Joyce’s own ironic construction of Stephen, who disavows his own theorizing, should alert us as to how much we can take this theory at face value with respect to a character who invokes the name of Shakespeare as much to construct a theory of him as to deconstruct it. In response to this, I argue that Rene Girard’s reading of Shakespeare in terms of mimetic desire provides a more compelling picture of the ways in which not only his characters, but the characters in Ulysses understand and articulate sexual desire as mediated by a prior belatedness patterned on the desire of the Other. However, I problematize Girard’s reading of Shakespeare and Joyce, and my final contention is that the desire of reading and self-fashioning is set in motion not so much by mimetic recognition as it is by the Lacanian notion of misrecognition. This forms the discursive conditions of the articulation of that desire while irrevocably fracturing not only the Girardian idea of the triangulation of desire, but also the ‘loop’ of literature and biography by thwarting all attempts to speak and desire from the place of the Other, as the Other.

Between the Visible and the Invisible

Between the Visible and the Invisible’ is based on a constellation of some of the most thought-provoking contemporary works developed through artistic research, inquiring into collective notions of memory, time and space – a moment when nothing is certain, concrete or stable; and how artistic practice could capture this sense of being ‘in-between’. The paper refers to Fatehrad’s recent curatorial project (Sharjah, UAE 2018) with the same title organised around three themes: disappearance, suspension and becoming. ‘Disappearance’ focuses on the ephemerality of recorded memory via sound or image; ‘suspension’ expresses a presence that is invisible yet substantive, thinkable through feelings; and ‘becoming’ concerns the mediation between bodily drawings and the cohabitation in holding a certain space through limited time. The concepts of diaspora and politics of location together offer a conceptual framework for a historicised analysis of contemporary (trans)national movements of people, information, culture, artistic practices, commodities and capital. ‘Between the Visible and the Invisible’ reflects on a rupture in time that is the exposure to a new mode of temporality based upon the continual mutability of all form. Referencing the context of ‘plasticity’ by Catherine Malabou (2010), this paper explores new modes of temporality through a series of multimedia installations, in particular, (i) the Psychoreographies – a performative inquiry for inner and outer spaces (15’, 2015) by Nikolaus Gansterer and (ii) Anubumin (18’, 2017) by Oliver Ressler, to expand on the notion of speculation within contemporary art and spatial politics.

The concept of time in Joachim Trier’s Reprise

In Joachim Trier’s debut film, Reprise (2006), the concept of time is a key feature. Time is embedded as self-reflexive by way of several narrative devices, including the reordering of chronology and projections of imaginable events. Time is also central to depictions of the characters’ experiences and states of mind. This article attempts to untangle the modes of temporality at play in the film and offers some interpretative pathways by which they can be understood.

Of other times: Temporality, memory and trauma in post-genocide Rwanda

This article explores how survivors’ experiences of extreme violence change their relationship with time. It draws on extensive fieldwork undertaken with survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and participatory observation of Rwanda’s annual commemoration ceremonies. It focuses on the practice of ‘care-taking’ that survivors engage in at genocide memorials that display human remains and dead bodies. This article identifies the different temporal practices that survivors use to help remake their worlds after the 1994 Genocide. In doing so, it asks: how do survivors construct time through informal mnemonic practices? How do they experience time during the commemoration? And what mode of temporality is inscribed in the materiality of memorials? The article demonstrates that care-taking and imagination produce a symbolic time-reversal, whereas the materiality of the memorial sites preserves the past in the present. The commemoration constructs different temporal logics, such as time homogenisation and a traumatic cyclicalisation, something I describe through the notion of ‘trauma-time’. The article concludes that multiple temporalities are produced and reproduced in various attempts to remake lives after genocide that counter simplistic ‘before and after’ accounts of time dominant in the transitional justice discourse.

The Falling Gods: Charles de La Fosse’s Allegory of Autumn as Theme and Variation

La Fosse’s Allegory of Autumn as Bacchus and Ariadne, painted for the ensemble of The Four Seasons conceived by Jules Hardouin-Mansart for the Grand Salon of Marly in 1699, brings into focus the artist’s means of allegorization. This essay analyzes the painting in two interrelated aspects: it considers the mode of temporality in La Fosse’s individual visual poiesis and its bearing on the development of French painting on the cusp of the eighteenth century. Considering the temporality of allegory, the essay seeks to demonstrate how the ensemble of paintings from the Grand Salon signals a new stage in the development of the French academic school, marked particularly by a departure from logos-driven allegories and an embrace of more complex, temporal allegories grounded in a pictorial medium. In addition, the essay points to the emergence of the pictorial mode of lamentation adapted by La Fosse from contemporaneous opera.

Sartre’s Godless Theology: Dualist Monism and Its Temporal Dimensions

Abstract My task in this paper is to study Sartre’s ontology as a godless theology. The urgency of defending freedom and responsibility in the face of determinism called for an overarching first principle, a role that God used to play. I first show why such a principle is important and how Sartre filled the void that God had left with a solipsist consciousness. Then I characterize Sartre’s ontology of this consciousness as a “dualist monism”, explaining how it supports his radical conception of freedom. Then, by assessing Sartre’s dualist monism through a theological lens, I disclose an inconsistency in his thought concerning the idea that the in-itself is a deterministic plenitude, which presumes a theos different from consciousness and hence threatens monism. Finally I argue that his inconsistency originates from the finitude of Sartre’s first principle and analyze this finitude by examining the modes of temporality it implies. The entire trajectory problematizes the practice of theo-logy, the idea that a theos stands at the origin of the “logic” (organization or intelligibility) of everything such that all must be conceived under the logos of the theos. While Sartre forcefully criticized the theology of the infinite, his was nonetheless a theology of finitude.

Temporal existentiality: the objectification of subjectivity

The turn from mass consumption to the creation of new and unique works in the development of contemporary culture, education and science is more and more clearly outlined. It is important to change not only our attitude to cultural and scientific achievements, but also to the person who creates them. The problem of temporality in its counteraction to objectification of human existence is considered in the article. The reasons for objectification of human subjectivity are analyzed and its mechanisms are revealed. The essence of the dilemma of objective and subjective time is revealed. There is the result of identification of the attributive properties of temporality. The unity of all modes of temporality, its ecstatic and constitutional nature are among them. The authors conclude that the study of the problem of temporality is an important step towards changing the consumer attitude of a person to culture and to himself. He must comprehend his own temporal nature as a condition for creative activity, which is highly valued in the modern culture, oriented by innovations.