non-simultaneity
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Non-simultaneity or nonsynchronism (German: Ungleichzeitigkeit, sometimes also translated as non-synchronicity) is a concept in the writings of Ernst Bloch which denotes the time lag, or uneven temporal development, produced in the social sphere by the processes of capitalist modernization and/or the incomplete nature of those processes. The term, especially in the phrase "the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous", has been used subsequently in predominantly Marxist theories of modernity, world-systems, postmodernity and globalization.
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- In the work of Ernst Bloch
- The simultaneity of the non-simultaneous
- In the work of Marx
- Subsequent use
- In structural Marxism
- Henri Lefebvre and Ernest Mandel
- In Marxist sociology and geography
- In theories of modernity and postmodernity
- In postcolonial theory
- See also
- References
Non-simultaneity or nonsynchronism (German: Ungleichzeitigkeit, sometimes also translated as non-synchronicity) is a concept in the writings of Ernst Bloch which denotes the time lag, or uneven temporal development, produced in the social sphere by the processes of capitalist modernization and/or the incomplete nature of those processes. The term, especially in the phrase "the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous", has been used subsequently in predominantly Marxist theories of modernity, world-systems, postmodernity and globalization.
== In the work of Ernst Bloch == The phrase "the non-simultaneity of the simultaneous" (''die 'Ungleichzeitigkeit' des Gleichzeitigen) was first used by the German art historian Wilhelm Pinder in his 1926 book Das Problem der Generation in der Kunstgeschichte Europas'' ("The Problem of Generation in European Art History").