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Abstract
There comes a time to move beyond asking the broad question “What is contemporaneity?” to consider more acute ways in which this question can be traced and signalled. We consider the notion of signal to be particularly appropriate in the consideration of contemporaneity, since signals are a constitutive element of contemporary infrastructures and our experience of time even if they are relatively undetectable. They operate underneath human perceptual thresholds as carriers, controllers, and codes, while also surfacing into perceptual and semiotic registers, as signs across various media—textual, visual, and, of course, sonic—all the while accessible as traces. Perhaps in this way it is possible to experience contemporaneity at a range of different scales— from the microtemporal to the planetary—to register both our closeness and distance from it (Agamben 2009), and to exemplify how times come together disjunctively in the present.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Futures of the contemporary : contemporaneity, untimeliness, and artistic research |
Editors | Paulo de Assis, Michael Schwab |
Number of pages | 18 |
Place of publication | Ghent |
Publisher | Leuven University Press |
Publication date | 2019 |
Pages | 97-114 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789462701830 |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Series | Orpheus Institute Series |
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The Contemporary Condition
Lund, J. (Project manager), Cox, G. (Project manager), Jepsen, C. J. (Participant), Iversen, A. K. (Participant) & Gfader, V. (Participant)
01/09/2015 → 20/10/2020
Project: Research