'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History: A Theory for the 21st Century by Pereira, Mateus Henrique de Faria
'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History: A Theory for the 21st Century by Pereira, Mateus Henrique de Faria

'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History: A Theory for the 21st Century

This book enables us to understand the current transformations in the experience of time that have been...
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Author: Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira
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'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History: A Theory for the 21st Century by Pereira, Mateus Henrique de Faria

'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History: A Theory for the 21st Century

$952.00
'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History: A Theory for the 21st Century by Pereira, Mateus Henrique de Faria

'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History: A Theory for the 21st Century

$952.00
Author: Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

This book enables us to understand the current transformations in the experience of time that have been taking place in recent decades. Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira and Valdei Lopes de Araujo convincingly argue that we live in a time of 'Updatism', the temporal dimension that emerges in those societies imprisoned by the structures of infinite expansion, and that this Updatism has profound consequences for how we think about the past, the present and the future.

Using the theoretical works of Lyotard and Heidegger as its foundation, 'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History analyses our digital modernity and the significance of key themes, such as updating, solitude, democracy, internet, exposure, postmodernism and historicism. It discusses aspects of our present time that reveal substantial differences between the historicist-modern time, usually located in the 19th century, and an emergent 'chronotope' or 'regime of historicity' understood and explained here as Updatism.

The book is effective in mapping the ubiquity of Updatism and the anxiety-inducing insistence of being constantly updated, as well as exploring some searching questions: If our reality is constantly being updated, and its previous versions are deleted or inaccessible, what does this mean for memory and our understanding of history? And what does this tell us about the world we live in today and the one we may update to in the future?

Author: Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira, Valdei Lopes de Araujo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 02/22/2024
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781350410718

About the Author

Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira is Professor of History at Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil. He has been a researcher and guest professor at the Universitàdi Bologna, Italy, Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico and École des hautes études en sciences socials, France.

Valdei Lopes de Araujo is Professor of History at Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil. He was President of Brazil's National History Association in 2021/2022. He has also been a researcher and guest professor at Stanford University, USA and Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
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