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Against Dead Time

School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds LS1 3HE, UK; conrad{at}macunlimited.net

This article connects Virilio's critique of speed with Surrealist and Situationist writings attacking the homogeneous time of the commodity, which themselves echo Benjamin and Bergson. I suggest here that these authors can all be seen as taking a Romantic stance against the perceived reification and abstraction inherent in modernity and its dominant time. Further, they share a concern with interrupting modernity's homogeneous time, to usher in more authentic forms of duration. I suggest, however, that the displacement of Newtonian time by other times, increasingly homogeneous and abstract, but constituted precisely by interruption, poses a problem for this strategy.

Key Words: accident • homogeneous time • moment • Romanticism • situatio

Time & Society, Vol. 11, No. 2-3, 193-208 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X02011002002


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