Daniel M. Knight, "Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Are We Now on the Time Line of Past and Future?
In the early years of the economic crisis, two thousand 11 12, hir n, the house where i stay on the agricultural plains in central greece. Where there was once crops, there were fordavaltaic panels, solar panels. Why is this land use suddenly changed? And to cut a very long story short, the european union had passed on to greece this idea that you can export reneable energy to pay back tet to decretial deficit. Would put agricut on agricultural land, which isn't actually particularly productive any more because wholeof sailors have gone vast beyond subsistence agriculture. We feel like we're living in en trajectory than the rest
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