Jesus McCrum
Topics in Convergent Media:
Vision
RTF 331S, #07285
Becomings
: explorations in time, memory, and futures. /
Does the Perception of
space change our perception of time?Ý Becommings, edited by Elizabeth Gosz is
an attempt to reexamine time and render it as a dynamic and irreversible
force.Ý Becomings covers a select number of thinkers who see time as
fundamentally open to futurity.Ý These
thinkers include Nitzsche, Bergson, Deleuze and Darwin. In their own way each
theorist sees time as a force of transformation or becoming and not as a function of causality.Ý Each understands the concept of time as difference arguing that reason
of time operates separately from the reason of space, understanding Determinism
as a limitation destroying any future uncontained in the past or present.Ý Each in their own way reasons time as an open-ended
and essential active force whose movements and operations are inherently
unpredictable. This unpredictability leads to chance that is independent of the
past and present. Being open to chance is being open to new and amazing
possibilities.Ý
The essays collected in
this book are multidisciplinary and difficult to classify conventionally.Ý This book has three parts: Part One, ìThe
Becoming of the World,î examines the concepts of time, becoming, and the open-endedness
of the future.Ý Part Two, ìKnowing and
Doing Otherwise,î deals with the modality of becoming that link the body,
subjectivity, and desire to the time of futurity, to what is yet to come. Part
Three, ìGlobal Futures,ì specifies, by example, some of the political and human
implications of producing and living the time of the future.Ý Incorporating greater concepts of time Becomings attempts to clarify and
reframe our established concept of time. It builds on progressive theories
creating tools for clarification and iterates frameworks dealing with time in
all fields of study.