Lived Temporalities : Exploring Duration in Guatemala. Empirical and Theoretical Studies.

Mahler, Julia,

Lived Temporalities : Exploring Duration in Guatemala. Empirical and Theoretical Studies. - 1 online resource (282 pages) - Cultural Studies ; v. 26 . - Cultural studies. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface: Inhabiting the Event; Abstract; 1. Lived Temporalities in Guatemala; 1.1 Lived Temporalities in the Mayan Cosmovision of Time; 1.2 The Concept of 'Lived Time' in Deleuze's Reading of Bergson; 1.2.1 Duration: Lived Time as Virtual Multiplicity; 1.2.2 The Condition of Duration: Ontology; 1.2.3 The Movement within Duration: Life; 1.2.4 Knowledge through Duration: Intuition; 1.2.5 Living Life Impelled by Duration: Vitalism; 1.3 The Location of the Research: Guatemala; 1.4 Methodology: Studying Atmospheres of Duration and their Production. 1.4.1 Affirming an Atmosphere: The Molar and the Molecular1.4.2 Mapping an Atmosphere: The Partial Objects; 1.4.3 Analysing an Atmosphere: The Machine; 1.5 Locating the Research Project within Existing Research; 2. 'Poco a Poco': Passive Time and the Traditional Home; 2.1 Introduction: Passive Time and the Living Present; 2.1.1 Passive Time; 2.1.2 The Living Present; 2.1.3 Tradition; 2.2 Empirical Explorations; 2.2.1 Temporalities of Fire; 2.2.2 Temporalities of Water; 2.2.3 Temporalities of Sweetcorn; 2.2.4 Temporalities of Saints; 2.3 Conclusion and Line of Flight. 3. 'Todo Sirve': The Passive Self and the Guatemalan Market3.1 Introduction: Immanence and Territorialisation; 3.2 Empirical Explorations; 3.2.1 The Market as a Plane of Immanence; 3.2.2 The Passive Self: Territorialisation through Resonance; 3.2.3 Territorialisation and Consistency; 3.3 Conclusion and Line of Flight; 4. 'Mañana': Becoming-Active and the Unpleasant; 4.1 Introduction: The passive Encounter with the Unpleasant and the Affirmation of Life; 4.1.1 The Affect: Unpleasure as reactive Force; 4.1.2 Differenciation: Unpleasure as active Force. 4.1.3 Binding: The active Forgetting of Unpleasure4.2 Empirical Explorations; 4.2.1 The Affect: Unpleasure as reactive Force; 4.2.2 Differenciation: Unpleasure as active Force; 4.2.3 Binding: The active Forgetting of Unpleasure; 4.3 Conclusion and Line of Flight; 5. 'Gracias a Dios': The Event and Guatemalan Buses; 5.1 Introduction: Making Sense of the Other and the double Reading of Time; 5.1.1 The Event and the Notion of the 'Other'; 5.1.2 Chronos: The Time of the Actual Other; 5.1.3 Aion: The Time of the Event; 5.1.4 The Event as Virtual Balance between Self and Other. 5.2 Empirical Explorations5.3 Conclusion and Line of Flight; 6. Research Findings: Lived Temporalities and the Recognition of the Actual Other; 6.1 Lived Temporalities: Time as Virtual Multiplicity; 6.2 The Recognition of the Actual Other; 6.2.1 The Desire for Omnipotence and the Desire for Mutual Recognition; 6.2.2 The Desire for Mutual Recognition and the Desire for a Holding Space; 6.2.3 The Desire for a Holding Space and Becoming-Active; 6.2.4 Becoming-Active and the Circumvention of Becoming-Reactive; 6.2.5 The Circumvention of Becoming-Reactive and Responsibility; 6.3 Conclusion.

In contemporary global capitalist culture, time-consciousness becomes more important than self-consciousness. In the realm of lived time, the identity of the self opens up to an encounter with otherness. Insights into the ways in which this dynamic unfolds enable one to affirm human temporalities in their potential difference to the temporalities of global capitalism. The book offers an empirical exploration of lived temporalities on markets, in buses and in traditional subsistence in Guatemala, and a theoretical exploration of these through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and inter-relational approaches within psychoanalysis.--


English.

3839406579 9783839406571

10.14361/9783839406571 doi


Social sciences (General).
Cultural Studies.
Culture.
Deleuze.
Ethnography.
Ethnology.
Guatemala.
Inter-relational Theory.
Sociology of Culture.
Cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.

Cultural Studies. Culture. Deleuze. Ethnography. Ethnology. Guatemala. Inter-relational Theory. Sociology of Culture.


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