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The Time Is Now: Embodiments Of The Hyper-Present In Contemporary American Literature, Robert Bruss
The Time Is Now: Embodiments Of The Hyper-Present In Contemporary American Literature, Robert Bruss
Theses and Dissertations
For many years, writers have argued the predominant temporality of contemporary experience is an intensified present. David Harvey and Fredric Jameson argued that such an intense emphasis on the present was one of postmodernism’s principle features. Harvey argued that new communication technologies resulted in a "time-space compression” that created the sense that “the present is all there is.” Similarly, Jameson argued that postmodernism reflected the logic of late capitalism, resulting in a society that “has begun to live in a perpetual present” that obliterates one’s awareness of the past or future. Although many consider we have moved beyond postmodernism, our …