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As people of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system became a model for describing political and social organization. This volume untangles the mutual dependencies of scientific neurology and the cultural attitudes of the period 1800-1950, exploring how and why modernity was a fundamentally nervous state.

Friedrich Kittler was one of the world’s most influential, provocative and misunderstood media theorists. His work spans analyses of historical ‘discourse networks’ inspired by French poststructuralism, influential theorizations of new media, through to musings on music and mathematics. Always controversial and relentlessly unpredictable, Kittler’s work is a major reference point for contemporary media theory, literary criticism and cultural studies.This is the only book of essays currently available in English on an important thinker whose influence across disciplines is growing. The volume situates Kittler’s ideas, explaining and critiquing his sometimes difficult writing, and using his theories to undertake innovative readings of old and new media. It also includes previously untranslated work by Kittler himself. Contributors include Caroline Bassett, Steven Connor, Alexander R. Galloway, Mark B. Hansen, John Durham Peters and Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.

Friedrich Kittler was one of the world’s most influential, provocative and misunderstood media theorists. His work spans analyses of historical ‘discourse networks’ inspired by French poststructuralism, influential theorizations of new media, through to musings on music and mathematics. Always controversial and relentlessly unpredictable, Kittler’s work is a major reference point for contemporary media theory, literary criticism and cultural studies.This is the only book of essays currently available in English on an important thinker whose influence across disciplines is growing. The volume situates Kittler’s ideas, explaining and critiquing his sometimes difficult writing, and using his theories to undertake innovative readings of old and new media. It also includes previously untranslated work by Kittler himself. Contributors include Caroline Bassett, Steven Connor, Alexander R. Galloway, Mark B. Hansen, John Durham Peters and Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.

Introduces, debates and extends the arguments surrounding the critical relevance of the terms 'late modernism' and 'postmodernism' for describing cultural products and intellectual contexts from the 1930s to the present.

As people of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system became a model for describing political and social organization. This volume untangles the mutual dependencies of scientific neurology and the cultural attitudes of the period 1800-1950, exploring how and why modernity was a fundamentally nervous state.

This open access book investigates waiting as one of healthcare’s core experiences. Waiting is there in the time it takes to access services; the uncertain temporalities of diagnosis and treatment; and in the elongated time-frames of recovery, relapse, remission, and dying. Yet it can be felt to be intolerable when we are in need of care and when we want to offer timely care. This book investigates both the difficulties and vital significance of waiting in and for practices of care.Waiting times in many health services across the Global North have been at historic levels since the Covid-19 pandemic. Although this crisis of waiting is culturally and historically specific, Covid-19 made visible broader questions about the relationship between waiting, time, and care, and the fate of welfare infrastructures. Who waits for (and on) whom? If all care entails forms of elongated time, what waiting do we want to eliminate, and what waiting needs to be noticed, supported, and preserved as an offer and practice of care? This book takes the UK National Health Service (NHS) as a particular site of collective waiting and caring. The authors argue that care is not straightforwardly aligned with the time of production, progress, or growth, but is bound instead to the chronicity of practices that sustain interdependence: pausing to assess what is needed, staying alongside suffering, and returning to sites of vulnerability. Cutting across the marketization, provision rationalization, ideas of crisis, and the linear models of time that can dominate health and welfare policies, this book reckons with care’s essential ‘untimeliness’. By moving away from the idea that waiting is merely a form of service failure or abandonment, the authors trace out a more complex understanding of how ‘timely’ care might be offered, made, and sustained. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.

This open access book investigates waiting as one of healthcare’s core experiences. Waiting is there in the time it takes to access services; the uncertain temporalities of diagnosis and treatment; and in the elongated time-frames of recovery, relapse, remission, and dying. Yet it can be felt to be intolerable when we are in need of care and when we want to offer timely care. This book investigates both the difficulties and vital significance of waiting in and for practices of care.Waiting times in many health services across the Global North have been at historic levels since the Covid-19 pandemic. Although this crisis of waiting is culturally and historically specific, Covid-19 made visible broader questions about the relationship between waiting, time, and care, and the fate of welfare infrastructures. Who waits for (and on) whom? If all care entails forms of elongated time, what waiting do we want to eliminate, and what waiting needs to be noticed, supported, and preserved as an offer and practice of care? This book takes the UK National Health Service (NHS) as a particular site of collective waiting and caring. The authors argue that care is not straightforwardly aligned with the time of production, progress, or growth, but is bound instead to the chronicity of practices that sustain interdependence: pausing to assess what is needed, staying alongside suffering, and returning to sites of vulnerability. Cutting across the marketization, provision rationalization, ideas of crisis, and the linear models of time that can dominate health and welfare policies, this book reckons with care’s essential ‘untimeliness’. By moving away from the idea that waiting is merely a form of service failure or abandonment, the authors trace out a more complex understanding of how ‘timely’ care might be offered, made, and sustained. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.