EAST 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Temporality, Temporalities
20 Apr 2019
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1930s shanghai part ii: new worlds, new women. Nation/modernity: the idea of the sovereignty of china as it"s identity and its relation to the modernity it strives for: temporality of "daily life" (calendar/regiments) etc Temporality: the baggage that comes along with the experience of time. The daily life becomes a routine that"s regimented on a clock. The idea of a shared calendar makes sure everyone is in the same hour. It relies on the idea that all time is equal to each other. A mechanical metaphor for how life works (scheduled trains, people lining up - this all points to saying: "we are all in modern times": temporality of photography vs. temporality of cinema. When you watch a film, you enter the temporality of a past moment, you experience time passing but it"s also a present time. Photography on the other hand, doesn"t take "time" to perceive. Narrative makes the experience of watching time pass in present acceptable.
