Time and Trace Multidisciplinary Investigations of Temporality 1st Edition by Sabine Gross,Steve Ostovich ISBN 9004315624 978-9004315624

Time holds an enduring fascination for humans. Time and Trace investigates the human experience and awareness of time and time’s impact on a wide range of cultural, psychological, and artistic phenomena, from reproductive politics and temporal logic to music and theater, from law to sustainability, from memory to the Vikings. The volume presents selected essays from the 15th triennial conference of the International Society for the Study of Time from the arts (literature, music, theater), history, law, philosophy, science (psychology, biology), and mathematics. Taken together, they pursue the trace of time into the past and future, tracing temporal processes and exploring the traces left by time in individual experience as well as culture and society.

Contributors are: Michael Crawford, Orit Hilewicz, Rosemary Huisman, John S. Kafka, Erica W. Magnus, Arkadiusz Misztal, Carlos Montemayor, Stephanie Nelson, Peter Øhrstrøm, Jo Alyson Parker, Thomas Ploug, Helen Sills, Lasse C. A. Sonne, Raji C. Steineck, and Frederick Turner.

Table of contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Time and Traction: Blazing the Trail
• 2. The Chaotic Trace: Stoppard’s Arcadia and the Emplotment of the Past
• 3. Beyond the Forensic Imagination: Time and Trace in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels
• 4. Time, Trace, and Movement in Stravinsky’s Three Japanese Lyrics
• 5. Tracing Space in Time: Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel
• 6. Traces of Viking-Age Temporal Organization
• 7. Time and Memory in the Odyssey and Ulysses
• 8. Time, Cognition, and Attic Performance: Tracing a New Approach to Theatre History’s “Vexing Question”
• 9. A.N. Prior’s Ideas on Keeping Track of Branching Time
• 10. Psychoanalysis and the Temporal Trace
• 11. Memory: Epistemic and Phenomenal Traces
• 12. Heredity in the Epigenetic Era: Are We Facing a Politics of Reproductive Obligations?
• 13. The Trace of Time in Judicial Reasoning: A Case of Conflicting Argument in the High Court of Australia (Al-Kateb v. Godwin, 2004)
• 14. Time, Waste, and Enlightenment, or: On Leaving No Trace
• Index