Time is changing. Human agency and experience lose their primacy in the complexity and scale of social organization today. The leading actors are instead complex systems, infrastructures and networks in which the future replaces the present as the structuring condition of time. As the political Left and Right struggle to deal with this new situation, we are increasingly wholly pre-empted and post-everything. The contributions in The Time Complex. Post-Contemporary re-localize the present as part of a changed, speculative time complex and draw a precise diagnosis of the situation in order to negotiate speculative predictions of a future presence.
The Time Complex. Post-Contemporary
Publication Date: 2016
Publisher: [NAME]
Pages: 165
Format: Paperback
Authors: Armen Avanessian, Andreas Töpfer, Benjamin H. Bratton, Elena Esposito, Victoria Ivanova, Aihwa Ong, Laboria Cuboniks, David Roden, Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams, Suhail Malik