Is Time out of Joint?Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the futureand their relationship to the presentbeen reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of ecological