The Accompaniment: On the Contemporary and the Untimely
The Accompaniment: On the Contemporary and the Untimely
This chapter examines Giorgio Agamben’s lecture on the understanding of the contemporary. For Agamben, there are two essential qualities of the contemporary: déphasage (temporal disconnection) and l’anachronisme (anachronism).
Keywords: Giorgio Agamben, contemporary, déphasage, temporal disconnection, l’anachronisme, anachronism
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