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With the advent of the new millennium, the notion of the future, and of time in general, has taken on greater significance in postmodern thought. Although the equally pervasive and abstract concept of space has generated a vast body of disciplines, time, and the related idea of ""becoming"" (transforming, mutating, and metamorphosing) have until now received little theoretical attention. This volume explores the ontological, epistemic, and political implications of rethinking time as a dynamic and irreversible force. Drawing on ideas from the natural sciences, as well as from literature, philosophy, politics, and cultural analyses, its authors seek to stimulate further research in both the sciences and the humanities which highlights the temporal foundations of matter and culture.The first section of the volume, ""The Becoming of the World,"" provides a broad introduction to the concepts of time. The second section, ""Knowing and Doing Otherwise,"" addresses the forces within cultural and intellectual practices which produce various becomings and new futures. It also analyzes how alternative models of subjectivity and corporeality may be generated through different conceptions of time. ""Global Futures,"" the third section, considers the possibilities for the social, political, and cultural transformation of individuals and nations.

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Elizabeth Grosz has put together an exciting and novel collection of essays, offering the reader an opportune treatment of such vital and contemporary topics as time, technics, memory, the body, and creative evolution. It should interest a wide array of readers and be of particular appeal to those working at the interface of philosophy, cultural studies, social theory, and new materialist approaches in general. -Keith Ansell Pearson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick

""Becomings is a tightly integrated and very exciting collection of essays by a group of careful and highly gifted scholars from several disciplines... This book should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in Bergson and it should be a high priority for anyone interested in Deleuze...It is a book for anyone who is truly interested in philosophy.""-Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2000 ""By bringing together the consideration of time, futurity, and becomings, Grosz has chosen a constellation of interrelated yet extremely broad and multifaceted themes for this volume... In addition to being a worthwhile addition to the contemporary philosophical literature on time, Becomings interfaces in a meaningful way with an astounding number of other disciplines, including Women's Studies, political science, psychology, biology, and anthropology. As a result, it should appeal not only to philosophers but to anyone in these fields who is looking to engage philosophically with issues such as time and futurity.""-Gina Zavota, Hypatia, 19.2, Spring 2004 ""Elizabeth Grosz has put together an exciting and novel collection of essays, offering the reader an opportune treatment of such vital and contemporary topics as time, technics, memory, the body, and creative evolution. It should interest a wide array of readers and be of particular appeal to those working at the interface of philosophy, cultural studies, social theory, and new materialist approaches in general.""-Keith Ansell Pearson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick

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Elizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies; The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely; and Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power.

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