Time and Value

This ground–breaking book addresses transformations in theunderstanding of time and the generation and degeneration of valueat the cutting edge of modernity and postmodernity. The book is amulti–disciplinary contribution to current work in the socialsciences, in cultural theory and in more pragmatic areas such asadvertising and global communication. It brings together the workof distinguished international scholars and new young thinkers.

Time and Value contains an exploration of such themes asthe timescapes of nature and the impact of disease, ecologicalcatastrophe, and many other issues. In theoretical terms, thecollection draws in particular upon writers such as JacquesDerrida, Michel Serres, Paul Virilio and Martin Heidegger, whosework is particularly relevant in considering how technology has hada powerful impact upon the construal of time and the explanation ofhow time constructs human lives in late modernity.

The compression of time and its fragmentation correspond with acollapse in and reconstruction of value systems. Thisdeconstruction of time is juxtaposed with a range of possibilitiesthat emerge when the specific times of the media, literature, art,virtuality, nature, performance, fashion, semiotic codings,spirituality, the self and the body are understood as creativeopportunity.

1. Values in the Timescapes of Nature: Barbara Adam (Universityof Wales, Cardiff, UK).

2. Angels in the Archive: Lines into the Future in the Work ofJacques Derrida and Miché Serres: Roy Boyne (UniversityCollege Stockton/University of Durham, UK).

3. Time and Neutrality: Media of Modernity in a PostmodernWorld: Elizabeth Ermarth (University of Edinburgh, UK).

4. The Time of the Real When Disease is ′Actual′: Monica Greco(Goldsmith′s College, UK).

5. Times of Value, Deconstruction and Value: Elizabeth Grosz(Monash University, Australia).

6. Being After Time: Towards a Politics of Melancholy: ScottLash (Lancaster University, UK).

7. Catastrophic Times: Alphonso Lingis (Penn State University,USA).

8. Moving at the Speed of Life: Tim Luke (Virginia PolytechnicUniversity, USA).

9. Le Presentisme ou la Valeur du Cycle: Michel Maffesoli(Sorbonne, France).

10. Time and the Event: Andrew Quick (Lancaster University,UK).

11. Fugit Hora: High Fashion, Television and the Ethics ofStyle: Hilary Radner (University of Notre Dame, USA).

12. Time, Virtuality and the Goddess: Richard Roberts(University of Lancaster, UK).

13. Time, Baroque Codes and Canonization: Bonaventura de SouzaSantos (University of Quimbra, Portugal).

14. Staging the Self by Performing the Other: Global Fantasiesand the Migration of the Projective Imagination: Luiz Soares(University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).