MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES
Monday, November 19
6 p.m.
Russell House
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Stanford University
Contemporary [global] everyday life no longer takes place within the same “chronotope,” within the same social construction of time [a legacy from the early 19th century] that had shaped what we call “historical culture.” This is the main thesis the lecture will try to explain and to document. In doing so, it will trace the slow emergence of a new chronotope from mid-20th century on, i.e., a development first misunderstood as a strange deformation of traditional “historical time.” “Latency” was the concept that often served to describe, in several Western cultures, the early literary and philosophical reactions to this change.