THE CHANGING CONSTITUTION OF THE PRESENT

Our present is defined by contemporaneitythe interconnection of heterogeneous times, histories, and temporalities. These many and v arious times do not merely exist in parallel with one another, simultaneously. Rather, they interconnect and are brought to bear on the same present, forming a sort of planetary present, andat least in principlea global sharing of time, although one not shared equally. In The Changing Constitution of the Present: Essays on the Work of Art in Times of Contemporaneity, Jacob Lund explores how the conditions...[Leer más]