Product Description: In recent years, there has been an increased attention to temporality in political theory, and such attention is sorely needed. For too long political theory, with the exception of occasional phenomenological forays, has remained grounded in a particular experience of time as linear and sequential...read more

Examines the intersection between temporality, futurity, and the political in contemporary society by exploring how the imperative to govern an uncertain future affects the way political power is organized and exercised.

Product Description: The standard, linear view of history is founded on the belief that political outcomes are predetermined by what has gone before. This book challenges this view, arguing for what Samuel A. Chambers calls an untimely politics which renders the past problematic and the future unpredictable...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines new information about the biological clocks that govern all living organisms, and probes the dangers inherent in computer-based artificial environments where time is divorced from biological and environmental rhythms