Abstract
The temporal affordances of contemporary social result in an “intermediate time” (Keightley, Time, media and modernity. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012) in which the various temporalities of media do not determine temporal experience, but are instead fundamental elements of its composition. This chapter consider how zones of intermediacy are shaped and performed within specific spaces and how this shapes the nature of temporal experiences that are produced within them. Using examples from ethnographic fieldwork on everyday remembering and vernacular media this chapter seeks to spatialise the conceptual framework of zones of intermediacy and to develop a more sensitive understanding of the situated and mobile ways in which mediated temporal experience is produced in and between the everyday places of lived experience.
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See, for example, work by Virilio (2000/2005, 1986 [1977]) and Castells (1996). More recent work has recognised the logic of acceleration but has developed more nuanced accounts which allow space for a consideration of the role of the human subject in accelerated social life. See, for example, Hassan (2007), Tomlinson (2007) and, for a more pessimistic account, Rosa (2010). See Sharma 2017 for a helpful and more comprehensive overview of the literature on what she terms speed up .
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See, for example, Peeren (2006, pp. 49–50) for a discussion of the routine conceptualisation of diaspora experience in spatial terms.
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The Media of Remembering project was funded by the Leverhulme Trust 2010–2013 (grant number F/00 261/AC). The fieldwork in this project was wide ranging, incorporating over 100 interviews of various kinds, including conventional in-depth interviews, focus groups, self-interviews (Keightley et al. 2012) and a mass observation call. For a detailed discussion of the project and its methodology, see Pickering and Keightley (2015).
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This is a reference to her own tracing of intimacy and its absence within her own immediate family through her photographic work.
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As Kia narrates one particular picture of her early childhood, she notes, “in this picture here, there’s some sort of makeshift kind of platform thing, and they’re trying to make it look very, you know, posh or something. But really, it’s not. Look, you’ve got woodchip wallpaper, and there’s just some tatty old piece of cloth”. Elsewhere, she notes that her mother made her sister put her arm around her for a snapshot: “my mum would’ve forced her to have done that, and she would’ve begrudgingly done it”.
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Keightley, E. (2019). Emplacing (Inter) Mediate Time: Power Chronography, Zones of Intermediacy and the Category of Space. In: Hartmann, M., Prommer, E., Deckner, K., Görland, S. (eds) Mediated Time. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24950-2_9
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