What Time Is It There?

by Serge Gruzinski

Book Overview

What Time is it There? is a history of worlds that encounter each other without ever meeting. The title is from a film by Tsai Ming-liang which explores the desire to conquer the barriers of space and time by abolishing time differences and inventing substitutes for a coveted elsewhere. This preoccupation with other worlds and awareness of the differences separating them has become a persistent theme of our world today, but the dismantling of closed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745647529
• ISBN13: 9780745647524
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"