On the Limits of Greenwich Mean Time, or The Failure of a Modernist Revolution

On the Limits of Greenwich Mean Time, or The Failure of a Modernist Revolution From the introduction of World Standard Time in 1884 to Einstein’s theory of relativity, the nature and regulation of time was a highly contested issue in modernism, with profound political, social and epistemological consequences. Modernist aesthetic sensibilities widely revolted against the increasingly strict rule of the clock, which, as Georg Simmel observed in “The Metropolis and Mental Life,” was established as the necessary basis of a capitalist, urban life. This paper will focus on the contending conceptions of time arising in key modernist texts by authors like Joyce, Woolf and Conrad. I will argue that the uniformity and regularity of time necessary to a rising capitalist society came under attack in a similar way by both modernist literary aesthetics and new scientific discoveries. However, while Einstein’s theory of relativity may have led to a subsequent change of paradigm in scientific thought, it has failed to significantly alter social and popular conceptions of time. Although alternative ways of thinking and living with time are proposed by modernist authors, they remain isolated aesthetic experiments, ineffectual against the regulatory pressure of economic and social structures. In this struggle about the nature of time, so I suggest, science and literature join force against a society that is increasingly governed by economic reason. The fact that they lost this struggle can serve as a striking illustration of an increasing shift of social influence from science and art towards economy.

Tarja (Jujuy, 1955-1960) : la cultura de los bordes

Con este trabajo se pretende poner de relieve la conciencia de la marginalidad que experimentan los miembros de una publicación literaria –Tarja– de una provincia alejada como Jujuy. Pero para que la distancia se haga perceptible debe existir un punto cero o “meridiano de Greenwich" desde donde establecer las diferencias. Ese punto es la ciudad portuaria de Buenos Aires. Las observaciones que registra la revista sobre estos tópicos abre asimismo otra variable: la arbitrariedad de la “provincia" y la relevancia histórico-cultural de la pertenencia a una región. En nuestro caso, una región andina transprovincial y supranacional.

An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian, by Nathaniel Lord Britton ... and Hon. Addison Brown ...

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A new map of the East India Isles: from the latest authorities

by John Cary.

Die Staaten von Südost=Europa: Rumänien, Serbien, Montenegro, Bulgarien, Kreta, Europ. Türkei, Griechenland

Redigiert v. Dr. K. Peucker ; Rudolph Maschek sculps ; Kartogr. Anst. v. Th. Bannwarth.

Karte der Kaukasus-Länder und der angränzenden Türkischen und Persischen Provinzen Armenien, Kurdistan, und Azerbeidjan

bearbeitet und gezeichnet von H. Kiepert.

Prof. C. Haussknecht's Routen im Orient 1865-1869: III. Kurdistan und Irak

nach dessen Originalskizzen redigirt von H. Kiepert.