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The Contemporary ConditionThere Is No Now – An Archaeology of Contemporaneity

Knut Ebeling - The Contemporary Condition
Drawing together discourses on contemporaneity and new materialisms, this book examines a material conception of temporality that makes it possible to develop a critique of the philosophical discourse on presence. Claiming that “there is no now,” Ebeling develops an archaeology of contemporaneity according to which the traces of the contemporary can only be secured through visual or material operations, not historical ones.
This book is the volume 7 of “The Contemporary Condition” series, edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund and published with Aarhus University, and ARoS Art Museum (Denmark). The aim of the series is to question the formation of subjectivity and concept of temporality in the world now. It begins from the assumption that art, with its ability to investigate the present and make meaning from it, can lead to an understanding of wider developments within culture and society. Addressing a perceived gap in existing literature on the subject, the series focuses on three broad strands: the issue of temporality, the role of contemporary media and computational technologies, and how artistic practice makes epistemic claims.
Knut Ebeling (born 1970 in Hamburg) is professor of media theory and aesthetics at the Kunsthochschule, Berlin.
Edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund.

Graphic design: Dexter Sinister.

Published with Aarhus University and ARoS Art Museum, Denmark.
 
published in October 2018
English edition
12 x 19 cm (softcover)
104 pages
 
8.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-95679-351-6
EAN : 9783956793516
 
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