'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History - Professor Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira, Professor Valdei Lopes de Araujo

'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History

A Theory for the 21st Century
Buch | Hardcover
144 Seiten
2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-41071-8 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
This book enables us to understand the current transformations in the experience of time that have been taking place in recent decades. Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira and Valdei Lopes de Araujo convincingly argue that we live in a time of ‘Updatism’, the temporal dimension that emerges in those societies imprisoned by the structures of infinite expansion, and that this Updatism has profound consequences for how we think about the past, the present and the future.

Using the theoretical works of Lyotard and Heidegger as its foundation, 'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History analyses our digital modernity and the significance of key themes, such as updating, solitude, democracy, internet, exposure, postmodernism and historicism. It discusses aspects of our present time that reveal substantial differences between the historicist-modern time, usually located in the 19th century, and an emergent ‘chronotope’ or ‘regime of historicity’ understood and explained here as Updatism.

The book is effective in mapping the ubiquity of Updatism and the anxiety-inducing insistence of being constantly updated, as well as exploring some searching questions: If our reality is constantly being updated, and its previous versions are deleted or inaccessible, what does this mean for memory and our understanding of history? And what does this tell us about the world we live in today and the one we may update to in the future?

Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira is Professor of History at Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil. He has been a researcher and guest professor at the Universitàdi Bologna, Italy, Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico and École des hautes études en sciences socials, France. Valdei Lopes de Araujo is Professor of History at Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil. He was President of Brazil’s National History Association in 2021/2022. He has also been a researcher and guest professor at Stanford University, USA and Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

List of Illustrations and Figures
Preface – Essay on the (Un)current Potentials of Thought and Time
Introduction
1. Updatism and Theory
2. Updatism and Historicism: Chateaubriand and Modernity as Temporal Mélange
3. Fragments of Updatism: 1970
4. Updatism in Few Characters
Conclusion – Loading: Your Settings are Outdated
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 14 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-350-41071-3 / 1350410713
ISBN-13 978-1-350-41071-8 / 9781350410718
Zustand Neuware
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