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By Robin Wagner-Pacifici

ISBN-10: 022643964X

ISBN-13: 9780226439648

ISBN-10: 022643978X

ISBN-13: 9780226439785

We dwell in an international of breaking information, the place at virtually any second our daily regimen should be interrupted by means of a far flung occasion. occasions are critical to the best way that folks and societies adventure lifestyles. Even life’s inevitable moments—birth, loss of life, love, and war—are more often than not a shock. encouraged by way of the cataclysmic occasions of September eleven, Robin Wagner-Pacifici provides right here a travel de strength, an research of the way occasions erupt and take off from the floor of ongoing, way of life, and the way they then circulation throughout time and landscape.

What Is an Event? levels throughout numerous disciplines, systematically examining the ways in which occasions emerge, take form, achieve momentum, stream, or even get slowed down. As an exploration of the way occasions are developed out of ruptures, it presents a mechanism for realizing eventful kinds and flows, from the micro-level of person lifestyles occasions to the macro-level of ancient revolutions, modern terrorist assaults, and monetary crises. Wagner-Pacifici takes an in depth examine a few circumstances, either actual and imagined, throughout the experiences, own narratives, work, iconic pictures, political posters, sculptures, and novels they generate and during which they survive. what's eventually at stake for people and societies in occasions, Wagner-Pacifici argues, are identities, loyalties, social relationships, and our very stories of time and house. What Is an Event? presents a fashion for us all—as social and political beings dwelling via occasions, and as analysts reflecting upon them—to larger comprehend what's at stake within the formations and flows of the occasions that mark and form our lives.

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