The Modernity Machine II
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The Modernity Machine II
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Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
Indeed, Sima Qian’s Shiji depicts a kind of empty, homogeneous space-time. The chronology consists of “a series of years that proceed at a perfectly mechanical pace with events in the various states that made up China,” revealing a space-time within which unrelated things could be contemporary.11
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
