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On Critical Times

Return, Repetition, and the Uncanny Present

Bibliographic Data

ID2156397
AuthorsRebecca Bryant (0000-0002-2753-3881)
Year2016
Volume27
Issue1
Pages19-31
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02757206.2015.1114481
OpenAlexW2222757137
LanguageEN
Citations received81
References cited19

This article posits that the vernacular understanding of crisis as existing in a different sort of time needs to be mined for what it tells us about social perceptions of temporality. Using three ethnographic examples from Cyprus, I ask here what temporal features we may identify that lead our interlocutors to see certain periods as “times of crisis”. In particular, I propose a notion that I call the uncanny present to refer to a particular sense of present-ness produced by futures that cannot be anticipated. Crisis, I claim, becomes such precisely because it brings the present into consciousness, creating an awareness or perception of present-ness that we do not normally have

Aesthetics · Consciousness · Economics · Epistemology · Futures contract · Linguistics · Perception · Sociology · Speculation · Temporality · Uncanny · Vernacular · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Philosophy

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