Modern Times
Book description
In this book Jacques Ranciere radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time with the interweaving of temporalities at play in modern processes of emancipation and artistic revolutions, showing how this plurality itself refers to the double dimension of time. Time is…
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French Philosopher Jacques Ranciere's latest book about film delves into the concept of time. The camera records the world unfolding at its own pace, yet the cinema demands that this time be fragmented, warped, and shaped to political and explanatory ends. Through a Neo-Marxist interpretation, Modern Times reveals how the movements of the cinematic apparatus replicate the movements of social life and expose the distinction between people who 'have time' (employers) and 'those who do not' (workers).