Subtitle:

Acta Poloniae Historica T. 130 (2024), Time and the Modern World. Standardisation, Globalisation, Privacy ; Time and the Modern World. Standardisation, Globalisation, Privacy

Institutional creator:

Fundacja Instytutu Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk ; Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla ; Polska Akademia Nauk. Komitet Nauk Historycznych

Contributor:

Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Publisher:

Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk ; Fundacja Instytutu Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

p. 113-133

Abstract:

This article refers to the memoirs of Ignacy Domeyko, a nineteenth-century geologist and emigrant who spent much of his life in Chile. Basing on a monographic reading of his Moje podróże [My Travels], it addresses three broader issues that extend beyond Domeyko’s individual experience and typify the period. The first is the standardisation of time, control over it, and planning as a form of ‘colonising’ the future. The second is the émigré condition with the attendant experience of limited agency and unpredictability, in contrast to the figure of the ‘modern man’ endowed with varied agency and command over time. The third is the perspective of geological time tied to Domeyko’s professional experiences of exploring Earth’s history and, thus, of measures of time extending beyond the human scale and control.

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Relation:

Acta Poloniae Historica

Volume:

130

Start page:

113

End page:

133

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:244534 ; 2450-8462 ; 0001-6829 ; 10.12775/APH.2024.130.06

Source:

IH PAN, sygn. A.295/130 Podr. ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license

Terms of use:

- ; Copyright-protected material. [CC BY 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license, full text available at:

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

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Access:

Open