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SUMMARY:The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time - Al
 legra Fryxell (Pembroke College)
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:Transformations in time and space are fundamental components o
 f definitions of modernity\, yet time has only recently gained attention a
 s a crucial category of the modern in historical research. While historian
 s have typically explored changing notions and experiences of time through
  new technologies or conventions for measuring time\, this paper seeks to 
 expand the conceptual definition of time in modernity by arguing for an in
 terdisciplinary approach that brings the history of science into conversat
 ions with the history of art and literary studies. Focusing on the period 
 from the late 19th century to World War Two\, ideas of time manifest in pe
 riod philosophy\, psychology\, theatre and science fiction are used to cap
 ture a general sense of temporality (and its relationship to historicity) 
 in early-20th-century modernity. The paper presents a new form of temporal
 ity\, palimpsestic time\, as a common feature of Euro-American modernity t
 hat must be taken into account alongside popular theories of 'social accel
 eration'.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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