Keywords
panopticon
chronotopology
social life
modernity
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Abstract
This essay offers a crtical appraisal of the relationship between modernity, postmodernity and transmodernity (and the post- colonial). It begins with a genealogy of the fundamental no- tions underpinning the temporal regimes of modernity. Foucault's notion of the panopticon is reformulated not in terms of optics or oculocentrism, but in terms of temporal and spatial mappings. Underlying Christendom, modernity, postmodernity, the author argues, is a particular chronotopology that regiments transcendence and social life in tercos of a calcu- lus of the teleological. This chronotope has assumed different chronograms, i.e. the modern, postmodern and postcolonial. The essay concludes offering a practical example of how the chronotopology of modernity works itself out in the case of biotechnology and genetic colonization.
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