pdf accessed 18 October 2020: https://www.academia.edu/24263177/DURING_Coexistence_and_the_Flow_of_Time_2016_ p. 1 Why do we need philosophy of time? "If philosophizing about time is any worth, it is because we expect itto shed some light on the real issues: for example, those concerning identity andpersistence, continuity and emergence. What would be the point of arguing about thereality or ideality… Continue reading Notes: Elie During (2016) Coexistence and the flow of time
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Notes: Clark, A. (2003) Natural-Born Cyborg
p.25 You may consciously decide, for example, to reach for the wine glass. But all the delicatework of generating a sequence of muscle commands enabling precise andappropriate finger motions and gripping is then turned over to a dedicated,unconscious subsystem—a kind of on-board servomechanism not unlikethose ABS brakes. p.26 Satisfied with your work you address the… Continue reading Notes: Clark, A. (2003) Natural-Born Cyborg
steams of time
. French professor of philosophy Elie During points out that "time is not the kind of thing that may flow or not" and in the discussion of time "passage is an utterly inadequate metaphor" (During, 2016, 5 and 14). Byung-Chul Han describes a Chinese incense clock to visualize time as lingering duration. I will think… Continue reading steams of time
vita contemplativa
In his philosophical essay The scent of time Byung-Chul Han asserts a temporal crisis, which coincides with a crisis of identity. The predominant temporality of work in Western societies at the beginning of the 21st century foregrounds vita activa and the absolute value of work. It, further, filters and shapes any relation that humans have… Continue reading vita contemplativa
non-quantitative
. I love you" I suppose that scientists would find something to measure-in my brain, my heart, my bloodstream, on my skin-when I say I love you" And based on their measurements they would conclude Yes, you love. And we may objectively say you love this much." Several fields of science base their observations and… Continue reading non-quantitative
pace
. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--VnCt6zUFQ&feature=youtu.be 2. Material from the performative experiment "walking on Syntagma Square: sharing time in public space" (18 June 2020) . . Elie During proposes time as "the medium of coexistence", as a perspective to understand "how heterogeneous durations unfolding together across the universe come to be woven into the fabric of the evolving… Continue reading pace
the how of time
In his paper Coexistence and the flow of time, Elie During revisits Bergson's duration and Kant's idea that time is form. How is time if not a measurable sequence of instances?
technologies of temporality
. Temporality is a culturally specific perception of time. One of its accentuated facets concerns social structures of time, that is "organizing and coordinating action with schedules and plans" (Bluedorn, 2002, 2). Expressions of such structures are calendars, the division between working days and weekends, habits of eating lunch or sleeping at certain hours. Considering… Continue reading technologies of temporality
time is not simply
. Aristotle Augustine of Hippo Kant Einstein Heidegger Bergson Deleuze Hawking and many more have attempted to define time in relation to human beings and to the universe. In his 2016 essay, French professor of philosophy Elie During agrees with Kant that time is not a concept, but rather a form. He contends that "'time'… Continue reading time is not simply
performance practices_divergent temporalities 