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... offshore temporal migration call center simultaneity global time ...

... With 400,000 call center agents, the Philippines has outpaced India in growth and number for voice operations. The offshore agent as a liminal figure simulates being in synch as a sonic presence with corporate global time at night while living bodily in Philippine national time. The offshore...

... breadlines waiting urban space time globalization ...

... Boredom, the conclusion argues, is not just a matter of time but also a matter of one’s place amid the global production of desire. Boredom registers the inability of displaced persons to move toward valued opportunities. This ethnographic observation allows for a dramatic rethinking of both...

... Chapter 1 examines the forms of space-time expansion that are endemic to globalization. The chapter contextualizes the diminishing economic activity of low-skilled workers in Romania by contrasting the idleness of communist-era breadlines with the boredom of homelessness and unemployment...

... globalization. It offers a critical assessment of theories of heterotemporality and alternative modernities and suggests that the inhuman dimension of the opening of the world by the coming of time is more fundamental as a force of transformation in contemporary globalization. globalization alternative...

... in Anglophone Caribbean television, music, and popular culture. With 400,000 call center agents, the Philippines has outpaced India in growth and number for voice operations. The offshore agent as a liminal figure simulates being in synch as a sonic presence with corporate global time at night while...

... with the time of waves at sea; the retrodictive time required to generate predictions; the speedy time of simulation; the reshuffling “version” time of computing in the data stack; and the staggered time of global wave science, they both depend on and create idiosyncratic, biographical, and political memories...

... The introduction opens with an overview of the concept of fugitive time, offering three descriptive vignettes of aesthetic objects that exemplify this distinctly black time consciousness. It provides an exposition of fugitivity and time consciousness (phenomenology), as well as the book’s global...

... a notion of the literary that is not synonymous with the politico-economic coordinates of contemporary globalization. The idea of the world proposed here is qualitatively irreducible to the trope of maximal territorial expansion, that is, the globe. At the same time, the world is theorized...

... Chapter 1 focuses on the desire for bodily release that subtly moves throughout a system of narrative flashbacks and anticipations in Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973) and Beloved (1987). The dozen times the author uses the term “easefulness” in her early works provides a key to the utopian map...

... Toni Morrison Sula Beloved narrative time ...