Tarkowska, E. Culture of the Present Time in Global and Local Perspectives.

Abstract: Today Time has become one of the basic categories of the interdisciplinary discourse devoted to society and culture, their present situation and modern transformations. The concept of the present time culture reflects the main peculiarities of modern temporality and a special role of time for culture and society: typical phenomena of time and space compression and their consequences for individuals and society; change in a status of the Present, Past and Future; forms of time perception and how new information and communication technologies as well as consumer culture influence them; new civilization ‘diseases’ caused by the fuss and new stresses related to the time perception, new threats and suggestions to resist them; influence of changing experience and time conceptions on social life and transpersonal relationships. In this article the present time culture is viewed as a global phenomenon which also has a local ‘Polish’ version. The author raises a question whether it is a solely Polish or eastern European post-communist peculiarity.

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