By Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Contemplating a number of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy results of literature to the effect of hypercommunication, globalization, and activities, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes a huge shift in our dating to background and the passage of time. even though we proceed to exploit recommendations inherited from a "historicist" perspective, a idea of time articulated within the eighteenth and 19th centuries, the particular building of time within which we are living in at the present time, which shapes our perceptions, studies, and activities, is not any longer historicist. with no totally understanding it, we now inhabit a brand new, unnamed area within which the "closed future" and "ever-available past" (a previous we've not controlled to depart at the back of) converge to provide an "ever-broadening current of simultaneities."
This profound switch to a key measurement of our lifestyles has complicated results for how within which we expect approximately ourselves and our relation to the cloth international. whilst, the ubiquity of electronic media has eradicated our tactile experience of actual house, changing our notion of our global. Gumbrecht attracts on his mastery of the philosophy of language to complement his daily observations, touring to Disneyland, a small city in Louisiana, and the heart of Vienna to provide notable sketches of our large presence on this planet.
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A Negative Anthropology of Globalization 19 Therefore, it has become difficult to find any situations that deserve to be called situations of “lived experience” (which is the English translation of the German concept Erleben), in the sense of being situations for which we do not have ready-made concepts, a well-laid approach, and, in the worst case, even tickets and a tourist guide. This development explains the no longer so new—and inevitably paradoxical—tendency within the tourist industry today to provide their clients with “adventure vacations” (or, in the German speaking countries, with Erlebnis-Urlauben).
However, the problematic consequences of pasts flooding the present cannot be foreseen. Maybe, as Niklas Luhmann once remarked, it really isn’t necessary to declare every factory chimney in eastern Westphalia a national 32 Stagnation monument to be preserved at any cost. 2 In this present it is impossible to forget anything, yet at the same time—because we are inclined to turn our backs on the future for reasons that, although reasonable, are not necessarily good—we no longer know in what direction we should progress.
III. stagnatIOn Temporal, Intellectual, Heavenly On the way to the dinner being held for conference participants at a Georgian restaurant near the Kremlin, two colleagues from Moscow who, in the final years of the Soviet Union, had managed to find another life at Oxford and in New York, gave the American a brief cultural tour. Here was Mayakovsky’s residence at the beginning of the October Revolution, there the dwelling of the young Pasternak. In front of the department store with a clock telling the time across the globe, they had stood as young boys; with the feverish patriotism of children, they heard how the first Sputnik had started its course around the planet.