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This article explores the idea of the impact of the "linguistic turn", which is the idea that language constitutes reality. The concept of empire is discussed. The relevance of the historical perspective of the concept of empires in current discussions of empires and imperialism is explored. The article argues that the return of empires and imperialism may not be a political reality, but rather a linguistic development as the empires and imperialism return as a concept of analysis. The article states that the reintroduction and use of the concept of empires marks a rhetorical step with potentially significant rhetorical effects. Andrew Bacevich's (2003) and David Rieff's (1999) contributions to the concept of empires as a linguistic innovation and level of analysis are discussed. This article is one in a series of articles on the topic of empires. References. E. Sundby

Intro -- Conceptualizing the World -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction. The World as Concept and Object of Knowledge -- Part I. Naming the World -- Chapter 1. "World" -- Chapter 2. A Multiverse of Knowledge -- Chapter 3. Globalization of Human Conscience -- Chapter 4. Creating World through Concept Learning -- Chapter 5. Between Metaphor and Geopolitics -- Chapter 6. On the Dialectics of Ecological World Concepts -- Part II. Ordering the World -- Chapter 7. The Emergence of International Law and the Opening of World Order -- Chapter 8. "Natural Capital," "Human Capital," "Social Capital" -- Chapter 9. The Worlds in Human Rights -- Chapter 10. Democracy of the "New World" -- Chapter 11. The Immanent World -- Chapter 12. From Critical to Partisan Dictionaries -- or, What Is Excluded from Today's Flat World Orthodoxies -- Part III. Timing the World -- Chapter 13. At Home or Away -- Chapter 14. Extensions of World Heritage -- Chapter 15. The End of the World -- Chapter 16. Time and Space in World Literature -- Part IV. Mapping the World -- Chapter 17. Middle Age of the Globe -- Chapter 18. The Champion of the North -- Chapter 19. The Search for Vínland and Norse Conceptions of the World -- Chapter 20. The Cartographic Constitution of Global Politics -- Chapter 21. The Individual and the "Intellectual Globe" -- Part V. Making the World -- Chapter 22. The World as Sphere -- Chapter 23. The Fontenellian Moment -- Chapter 24. Fixating the Poles -- Chapter 25. The Norwegian Who Became a Globe -- Index

International order is also temporal order, based on the alignment, more precisely, the synchronisation of the multiple times at work on a global scale. Synchronicity between cultures, languages, and polities does not emerge by itself. To create temporal orderings on a global scale requires work: political, social, and linguistic. Some work of synchronisation is performed by technological innovations such as clocks, trains, telegraph lines, phones, satellites etc. Another set of tools, however, is linguistic, made up by concepts used to make historical and political time understandable and workable. Concepts are used to order events, objects and polities temporally, thus making both them and their temporality aspects of international order. By drawing together experiences, events, and meanings from different knowledge fields or cultures, they synchronise them, aligning their speeds, rhythms, and durations. One of the most central concepts that have been used in synchronisation over the past two centuries is progress. In this article we map out how it has synchronised temporalities on a global scale, and ask whether progress is in the process of being replaced by the concept of crisis as the main tool for synchronising temporalities in international society – using examples from political and administrative rhetoric as well as anthropological studies.