On Time Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt

Name: On Time Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt
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ISBN: 9780520276147

ISBN-10: 0520276140

ISBN-13: 9780520276147

Edition: 2013

Authors: On Barak

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In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph, tramway, and telephone in colonial Egypt actually triggered the development of unique timekeeping practices that resignified and subverted the typical modernist infatuation with expediency and promptness. These countertempos, predicated on uneasiness over "dehumanizing" European standards of efficiency, sprang from and contributed to non-linear modes of arranging time.Barak shows how these…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/19/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration


Introduction: Another Time?



En Route



Double Standards



Effendi Hauntologies



Harmonization and Its Discords



The Urban Politics of Slowness



Counterclockwise Revolution



On Hold


Conclusion: Countertemporality


Notes


Bibliography


Index