Browsing by Subject "Time"

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    Convivial spaces for seasonal artists.
    (2009-12) Jansen, Joshua Peter
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    Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Prescient and Black
    (2019-08) Mahadeo, Rahsaan
    In this dissertation, I explore how racialized youth in urbanized space reckon with time. I specifically study how race, racialization and racism condition the time perspectives of black youth in urbanized space. I draw on data from thirty in-person interviews and ethnographic fieldwork conducted over the course of one year with youth at Run-a-Way – a shelter and outreach center for youth in the Twin Cities. I make the case that whiteness and white life prefigure time, thus denying the coevalness of racialized youth, particularly black youth. Thus, “time use” among racialized youth is a misnomer. Racialized youth are more likely to owe time than own it. In using time that does not belong to them, several black youth in this project detailed the way their “time use” is read as “time theft” and thus criminalized. Youth’s accounts suggest that racialized violence is responsible for significant time theft. In other words, racialized violence takes time. Racialized violence proved to be less of a life course transition and more of a life course constant. Despite the overrepresentation of white time as time itself, I show how racialized youth at Run-a-Way turn the tables on time, ensuring their temporalities were most culturally relevant and “up to date,” while casting whiteness into a “played-out” past. I make the case that urban ethnographic representations of racialized youth in poor urbanized space as “present oriented” elide their prescience. Because they choose not to entertain liberal futurities directed towards “freedoms” associated with whiteness and a “post racial era” did not make them present oriented. It made them prepared. In sum, my research forges new directions in the study of race and time by examining how time is racialized, how race is temporalized, and how racialization and racism condition youth’s perspectives on time.
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    Ground Vibration Test Time Domain Data
    (2014-09-03) Gupta, Abhineet
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    On Order Types of Spatiotemporal Dimensions
    (2017-08) Al-Dhalimy, Haidar
    It has been suggested that mathematical truth can be accounted for or explained in terms of infinitary computations. Certain Zenonian arguments against the possibility of performing such computations raise problems about the structure of time and space. We study the kinds of spatiotemporal structures that would allow for infinitary computations, and identify where further work is needed.
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    Out of the frying pan and into the fire: narrative past-time as a temporal site of racialized identity deconstruction
    (2013-05) Coleman, Taiyon Jeanette
    My dissertation considers the structural displacement of linear time in four novels published during the 20th and 21st centuries by writers of the African Diaspora in the Americas. Through a theoretical framework of literary analysis that draws on post-structuralism and critical race theories, I argue that alterations of linear time in fiction breach the unity of narrative structures. These ruptures, which create what Jacques Derrida calls temporalization, allow characters and readers to consider how African identities, collective and individual, are produced and altered, and how these constructions affect ideas of present time and subjectivity in the texts. The Non-linear plots in these structural and metaphysical temporal sites deconstruct racialized and gendered identities; signs, symbols, and referents in the novels that are dismantled to reveal the arbitrary nature of time and its subsequent associations of meanings. These fictional configurations of time become politically and socially oppositional and help to recast Diaspora histories previously dominated by the West. The interdisciplinary aesthetics of the African and African American Diaspora has always disrupted constructions of identity, reality, and time, especially when dominant narratives of national identity have rendered Africans and African Americans historically invisible. For example, Du Bois' Black Reconstruction demonstrates the "race of time" and how "time is raced"; Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic posits from a look to the past that the Atlantic Ocean has been a breach that created a more representative African Diaspora identity; and Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother imagines back to the African Atlantic Slave Trade when all texts and persons to whom she could return to have been obliterated. My dissertation contributes to these discussions through contending that the formation of time is simultaneously a structural device for textual analysis and a methodology for comprehending marginalized identities and experiences, both inside and outside of literature. The dissertation uses different types of texts, in addition to literature, which expands the importance of reading past-time to critically illuminate the real, political and social realities, and discourses of African Diaspora peoples.