Meaning of contemporalities | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

Examples

“[…] rather than attempt to juggle contemporalities, the reader is offered the following bare-bones sketch of Island history for the purpose of general background.”

“We know by now that there can never be a ‘timely ghost’, and that if we are to investigate the cultural forms and meanings of the contemporary, then we must watch for the moments in which contemporalities intersect and diverge, in which one time transects another.”

“I think that the kinds of contemporalities that we are dealing with at present are not going to depend on notions of mediation, because notions of mediation essentially try to regulate certain kinds of flows and to reorganize them. Arbitrage is the handling of the contemporalities, that’s all it is.”

“Hyperion jokingly switches between primitive tribes, medieval monks and Knights Templar, the cyberpunk near future and far-flung interstellar travel. The core mystery of the book, the Time Tombs of Hyperion, have their own temporality, moving backwards through time, transecting the pilgrims’ present. But even amidst this chaos of contemporalities, Simmons also uses these conventions to restate the uneven development of late twentieth-century Earth.”

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