7 Prehistory and Posthistory: Apes, Caves, Bombs, and Time in Georges Bataille

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Chronocenosis: An Introduction to Power and Time 1
4. Part I Temporal Pluralities in Conflict
5. 1 Legal Pluralism as Temporal Pluralism: Historical Rights, Legal Vitalism, and Non-Synchronous Sovereignty 53
6. 2 The Invention of the Muslim Golden Age: Universal History, the Arabs, Science, and Islam 80
7. 3 Rise and Fall of the Sattelzeit: The Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe and the Temporality of Totalitarianism and Genocide 103
8. 4 A Technofossil of the Anthropocene: Sliding Up and Down Temporal Scales with Plastic 122
9. Part II Loops, Layers, Assemblages
10. 5 Long Divided Must Unite, Long United Must Divide: Dynasty, Histories, and the Orders of Time in China 147
11. 6 The Temporal Assemblage of the Nazi New Man: The “Empty” Present, the Incipient Ruin, and the Apocalyptic Time of Lebensraum 173
12. 7 Prehistory and Posthistory: Apes, Caves, Bombs, and Time in Georges Bataille 201
13. Part III The Splintered Present
14. 8 Brain-Time Experiments: Acute Acceleration, Intensified Synchronization, and the Belatedness of the Modern Subject 223
15. 9 Cryopower and the Temporality of Frozen Indigenous Blood Samples 249
16. 10 “Now Is the Time for Helter Skelter”: Terror, Temporality, and the Manson Family 270
17. Part IV Speed(s)
18. 11 Legal Panics, Fast and Slow: Slavery and the Constitution of Empire 295
19. 12 Time and the Economics of the Business Cycle in Modern Capitalism 317
20. 13 History and Temporal Sovereignty in the Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru 335
21. Part V “Already Here . . . Just Not Evenly Distributed”: Heterochronies of the Future
22. 14 Future Perfect: Political and Emotional Economies of Revolutionary Time 357
23. 15 The Future in the US Supreme Court 379
24. 16 Commemorating the End of History: Timelessness and Power in Contemporary Russia 400
25. Acknowledgments 421
26. Contributors 423
27. Index of Temporal Terms 425