The new time and space:

"The New Time and Space examines the ways in which the experience of time and space has been redefined in the contemporary era. Mobile phones, networked communications and freely accessible digital information have contributed to a shift in the way we understand time and space. There is a new v...

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1. Verfasser: Potts, John 1959- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2015
Ausgabe:1. published
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Zusammenfassung:"The New Time and Space examines the ways in which the experience of time and space has been redefined in the contemporary era. Mobile phones, networked communications and freely accessible digital information have contributed to a shift in the way we understand time and space. There is a new virtual dimension to the public sphere, a new immaterial venue for social life. The book illustrates how, in this changed relationship to space, the virtual is layered onto the actual. Smartphone users are overwhelmed by a compulsion to check their messages, so that time becomes a montage of fractures. Interruption and distraction are the norm, as time is absorbed by an endless stream of messages and information"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- A Brief History of Time and Space -- Theorising Time and Space -- 'No One is Where They Are': Virtual Time and Space -- Space and Displacement in Contemporary Art -- The Big Now and the Faraway then: Present, Past and Future in Contemporary Culture -- Public Intimacy: The Shrinking Space of Privacy -- Photography 2.0: Photos on the Loose -- Schizochronia: Time in Digital Sound -- Capsules of Time and Space: Video and Performance Art
Beschreibung:VII, 185 Seiten

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