Power and Time

Dan Edelstein is the William H. Bonsall Professor of French and (by courtesy) professor of history at Stanford University. He is the author of The Terror of Natural Right, The Enlightenment, and On the Spirit of Rights, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Stefanos Geroulanos is professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Transparency in Postwar France and coauthor of The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe, published by the University of Chicago Press. Natasha Wheatley is assistant professor of history at Princeton University.

Chronocenosis: An Introduction to Power and Time
Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley

PART I Temporal Pluralities in Conflict

1 Legal Pluralism as Temporal Pluralism: Historical Rights, Legal Vitalism, and Non-Synchronous Sovereignty
Natasha Wheatley

2 The Invention of the Muslim Golden Age: Universal History, the Arabs, Science, and Islam
Marwa Elshakry

3 Rise and Fall of the Sattelzeit: The Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe and the Temporality of Totalitarianism and Genocide
Anson Rabinbach

4 A Technofossil of the Anthropocene: Sliding Up and Down Temporal Scales with Plastic
Andrea Westermann

PART II Loops, Layers, Assemblages

5 Long Divided Must Unite, Long United Must Divide: Dynasty, Histories, and the Orders of Time in China
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

6 The Temporal Assemblage of the Nazi New Man: The “Empty” Present, the Incipient Ruin, and the Apocalyptic Time of Lebensraum
Stefanos Geroulanos

7 Prehistory and Posthistory: Apes, Caves, Bombs, and Time in Georges Bataille
Maria Stavrinaki

PART III The Splintered Present

8 Brain-Time Experiments: Acute Acceleration, Intensified Synchronization, and the Belatedness of the Modern Subject
Henning Schmidgen

9 Cryopower and the Temporality of Frozen Indigenous Blood Samples
Emma Kowal and Joanna Radin

10 “Now Is the Time for Helter Skelter”: Terror, Temporality, and the Manson Family
Claudia Verhoeven

PART IV Speed(s)
11 Legal Panics, Fast and Slow: Slavery and the Constitution of Empire
Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford

12 Time and the Economics of the Business Cycle in Modern Capitalism
Jamie Martin

13 History and Temporal Sovereignty in the Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru
Sunil Purushotham

PART V “Already Here . . . Just Not Evenly Distributed”: Heterochronies of the Future

14 Future Perfect: Political and Emotional Economies of Revolutionary Time
Dan Edelstein

15 The Future in the US Supreme Court
Kristen Loveland

16 Commemorating the End of History: Timelessness and Power in Contemporary Russia
Kevin M. F. Platt

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index of Temporal Terms