CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Tracking a Hypothesis
1. Presence in Language or Presence Achieved Against Language?
2. A Negative Anthropology of Globalization
3. Stagnation: Temporal, Intellectual, Heavenly
4. “Lost in Focused Intensity”: Spectator Sports and Strategies of Re-Enchantment
5. Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present: On Our New Relationship with Classics
6. Infinite Availability: About Hypercommunication (and Old Age)
In the Broad Present
Notes
Index