Marking Time. On the Anthropology of the Contemporary, by Paul Rabinow: Princeton University Press, 2008
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Rabinow starts his search for new anthropological methods with the question of what the contemporary is. He identifies two meanings. The first is the ordinary English-language meaning: contemporary means that something occurs at the same period of time as something else. The issue is not when something happened, but that it happened at the same period of time. Cicero was the contemporary of Caesar just as the German painter Gerhard Richter was the contemporary of chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, as Rabinow explains.
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