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View article: Introduction Dividing Times
Introduction Dividing Times Open
A distinctive and widely recognized feature of the modern history of knowledge in the last 250 years is the growing epistemological split between the study of nature and the study of human history.Th is divide emerged from the late eightee…
View article: Chapter 12. Encountering the Geological Live: Temporalization in the Age of Natural Media
Chapter 12. Encountering the Geological Live: Temporalization in the Age of Natural Media Open
A major aspect of the struggle with climate change concerns matters of temporal imagination.From the seminal essay of Dipesh Chakrabarty on "Th e Climate of History" from 2009, and through the following decade, many have argued that the ar…
View article: 1 Introduction
1 Introduction Open
The history of the humanities needs to move beyond the focus on tra-ditional disciplines and historicize notions regarding the impact andorganization of the humanities in a long historical perspective. The presentedited volume, based on ca…
View article: 12 Forging the Integrative Humanities
12 Forging the Integrative Humanities Open
Drawing on the results of this volume, this chapter reflects on the role of the integrative humanities in contemporary knowledge policies.It identifies a long-standing tension in the history of the humanities between, on the one hand, an o…
View article: The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge
The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge Open
The history of the humanities needs to move beyond the focus on traditional disciplines and historicize notions regarding the impact and organization of the humanities in a long historical perspective.The present edited volume, based on ca…
View article: The integrative humanities - and the third research policy regime
The integrative humanities - and the third research policy regime Open
Anders Ekström and Sverker Sörlin take an active part in critical debates of humanities in and for society. University policies in the last decades have primarily aimed at the research component, to trigger excellence and international vis…
View article: A Failed Response?
A Failed Response? Open
This essay discusses the changing role of arts and humanities research and education in the context of continuing transitions in knowledge politics and society at large. It argues that a conflicted history of both expansion and marginaliza…
View article: Media Times| When is the Now? Monitoring Disaster in the Expansion of Time
Media Times| When is the Now? Monitoring Disaster in the Expansion of Time Open
This essay inquires into the temporalities that emerge in the context of online news of extreme nature events. It draws on a larger empirical study of what has become a dominant template for online reports on disasters of a different chara…
View article: Remediation, Time and Disaster
Remediation, Time and Disaster Open
This paper explores the deep historical contexts for imagining natural disasters. By focusing on a foundational event in the Western disaster imaginary – the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 – and its remediation across centuries, the paper s…
View article: When Is the Now? Monitoring Disaster in the Expansion of Time
When Is the Now? Monitoring Disaster in the Expansion of Time Open
This essay inquires into the temporalities that emerge in the context of online news of extreme nature events. It draws on a larger empirical study of what has become a dominant template for online reports on disasters of a different chara…
View article: Introduction: Cultures of Disaster
Introduction: Cultures of Disaster Open
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