Thomas Girst beim TEDx Talk über das Thema Zeit
Thomas Girst
All the Time in The World
Details about the book
Stories about things that take a very long time
- date of publication: 11.03.2019
- 208 Pages
- Hanser Verlag
- hardcover
- ISBN 978-3-446-26187-7
- Deutschland: 17,00 €
- Österreich: 17,50 €
- ePUB-Format
- E-Book ISBN 978-3-446-26346-8
- E-Book Deutschland: 6,99 €
Some things take just a little more time. Like the Voyager 1 spacecraft, for example, which was launched in 1977, and is still transmitting signals from the depths of space. Or John Cage’s composition As Slow As Possible, whose first note was struck in 2001 in Halberstadt, and whose complete performance will take 639 years. If there’s one thing that doesn’t suit our present times, it’s slowness. Thomas Girst has collected 25 highly entertaining stories by artists and academics who have patience and stamina – qualities that many of us lack these days.
He describes the comprehensive dictionary which several generations have worked on, or the fantastic palace built over the space of 33 years by a French postman from the stones and shells collected on his daily rounds. When we take our time, we can achieve great things. This book raises objections to the dictates of speed – and suggests that we have to learn to take our time.
Foreign Sales
China (simplified, Shanghai Joint), Italy (ADD Editore), Korea (Eulyoo Publishing)