Pamela M. Lee, Chronophobia. On Time in the Art of the 1960s. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004. ISBN 0-262-12260-X
2012
Abstract
The article is a review of the book Chronophobia from Pamela M. Lee, which is about the conception of time in the art of the 1960's.
The term chronophobia describes an experience of anxiety about time - a feeling that events are moving too fast to be captured properly. Pamela M.
Lee focuses on the relationship between the art of the 1960s and the technology of the period. I analyze Pamela M.
Lee's phenomenological conception of technology as "techné" inspired by Martin Heidegger. I describe her disagreement with instrumental conception of technology by Marshal McLuhan.
Pamela M. Lee's interest in the topic of the book was motivated by her own subjective personal experience, which I described in the end of the review.