Impulsivity and Time: How the Experience of Time Influences Decisions

For the nineteenth century, music was commonly characterized as the “art of time,” and provided a particularly fertile medium for articulating concerns about the nature of time and the temporal experience of human life. This chapter examines some of the debates around music and time from the period, arranged thematically around a series of conceptual issues. These include the reasons proposed for the links between music and time, and the intimate connection between our subjective experience of time and music; the use of music as a poetic metaphor for the temporal course of history; its use by philosophers as an instrument for the explication of temporal conundrums; its alleged potential for overcoming time; its various forms of temporal signification across diverse genres; and the legacy of nineteenth-century thought on these topics today.

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Elegy

Boom A Journal of California ◽

10.1525/boom.2016.6.4.6 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 6-9

Author(s):

David L. Ulin

Keyword(s):

San Francisco ◽

San Francisco Bay ◽

San Francisco Bay Area ◽

Early Adulthood ◽

Bay Area ◽

Experience Of Time

Traversing the kaleidoscope of memory of early adulthood in the San Francisco bay area, David Ulin describes the places as he remembers them with picturesque account: Andrew Molera State Park, Fort Mason, Marin Headlands, Old Waldorf, and Sutro Tower, with the particulars, and what happened to his experience of time in those places that summer of 1980. Experienced as a series of fleeting memories, joining together with others who lived there for a time. They left, and so did the author, experiencing the power of temporality or “abandon” both in and from this place.

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A pandemic of jokes? The Israeli COVID-19 meme and the construction of a collective response to risk

Humor - International Journal of Humor Research ◽

10.1515/humor-2021-0012 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 229-257 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tsafi Sebba-Elran

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Belonging ◽

Group Cohesion ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

Public Response ◽

Hybrid Nature ◽

Everyday Practices ◽

Collective Response ◽

News Announcements ◽

Experience Of Time ◽

Current Article

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic that broke out in Israel in February 2020 prompted widespread public response, which included a deluge of humorous memes. The current article discusses the main meme cycles of the pandemic with the aim of uncovering the functions of the humorous meme, and particularly its singular language, which incorporates the universal and the particular, the global and the local, the hegemonic and the subversive. The memes are examined in their immediate context, as responses to news announcements, restrictions, and rumors relating to the pandemic, and from a comparative perspective, with emphasis on the various functions of disaster jokes and the use of folklore in response to previous epidemics, crises, or risks. Alongside the hybrid nature of the genre, these meme cycles demonstrate that COVID-19 is not just a threatening virus but a new reality that undermines our experience of time and space, evoking old beliefs and new, and threatening to change everyday practices. These narratives not only reflect the incongruities evoked by the virus, but also give vent to anxieties and aggressions brought on by the pandemic and convey a communal need to protect and foster group cohesion and a local sense of belonging.

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The causal involvement of the right supramarginal gyrus in the subjective experience of time: A hf-tRNS study

Behavioural Brain Research ◽

10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113157 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 404 ◽

pp. 113157

Author(s):

Giulia Prete ◽

Chiara Lucafò ◽

Gianluca Malatesta ◽

Luca Tommasi

Keyword(s):

Subjective Experience ◽

Supramarginal Gyrus ◽

Experience Of Time ◽

The Right

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Gender as Lived Time: Reading The Second Sex for a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporality

Hypatia ◽

10.1111/hypa.12386 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 111-127 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Megan M. Burke

Keyword(s):

Human Existence ◽

Underlying Structure ◽

Sexual Objectification ◽

Main Claim ◽

Second Sex ◽

Experience Of Time ◽

Phenomenological Account ◽

Time Reading ◽

Feminist Phenomenology ◽

Lived Time

This article suggests that Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex offers an important contribution to a feminist phenomenology of temporality. In contrast to readings of The Second Sex that focus on the notion of “becoming” as the main claim about the relation between “woman” and time, this article suggests that Beauvoir's discussion of temporality in volume II of The Second Sex shows that Beauvoir understands the temporality of waiting, or a passive present, to be an underlying structure of women's existence and subordination. Accordingly, I argue that Beauvoir does not see “woman” as a mere becoming, as that which unfolds in time, but instead understands becoming a woman to be realized as lived time. As such, Beauvoir's account shows that gender and temporality are deeply entangled, and thus she challenges the classic phenomenological account of temporality as a general, given structure of human existence. More specifically, I argue that her account shows how a particular experience of time is an underlying structure of sexual objectification, a claim that expands on the feminist phenomenological claim that a particular relation to space becomes a way in which women take up and negotiate their own subordination and objectification.

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Mapping the Terrain of Time—Space Compression: Power Networks in Everyday Life

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1068/d150611 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 15 (5) ◽

pp. 611-626 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Gary Bridge

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Interpersonal Relations ◽

Power Networks ◽

Late Modernity ◽

Time Space ◽

Experience Of Time ◽

Space Compression ◽

Actor Networks ◽

Power Geometry ◽

Comprehensive Mapping

In this paper I seek a more comprehensive mapping of the experience of time—space in late modernity. I develop Massey's critique of the work of Harvey and Jameson in their reading of time space compression as a socially uniform experience of disorientation. Building on Massey's notion of ‘power geometry’ I integrate discussions of time—space with an application of different understandings of power (from traditional political philosophy, Marxism, and poststructuralism) and their manifestations—in latent-power conditions, socioeconomic networks, actor networks, ‘local’ interpersonal relations, and the network spaces of subjectivity. Rather than being posited as irreconcilable conceptions, these versions of power and their articulations can be seen as initial coordinates in the mapping of the complexities of the experiences of time and space in late modernity.

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Into The Void

Janus Head ◽

10.5840/jh201816217 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 156-189

Author(s):

Clay Lewis ◽

Keyword(s):

Good Life ◽

The Self ◽

The Good Life ◽

Eternal Return ◽

Will To Power ◽

Experience Of Time ◽

Complete Failure ◽

Impossible Task ◽

Poetic Vision

This paper looks at authoritarianism as an expression of nihilism. In spite of his rigorous critique of Platonism, I suggest that Nietzsche shares with Plato an authoritarian vision that is rooted in the cyclical experience of time. The temporality of the eternal return unveils a vista of cosmic nihilism that cannot possibly be endured. In the absence of metaphysical foundations, the vital will to power is assigned an impossible task – to create meaning from nothing. I suggest that when confronted with the horror of the ungrounded void, the self-overcoming of nihilism reverts to self-annihilation. The declaration that God is dead becomes the belief that death is God. I trace Nietzsche’s cosmic nihilism back to Plato’s myths and the poetic vision of Sophocles and Aeschylus. I argue that Nietzsche’s overcoming of nihilism is itself nihilistic. However, this does not mean that Nietzsche’s project is as a complete failure. On the contrary, I suggest that Nietzsche’s deepest insight is that the good life does not consist of the pursuit of truth, but the alleviation of suffering.

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How do Past, Present and Future Weigh into Trajectories of Precarity? The Time Perspectives of Young Psychoactive Substance Users Living in Situations of Social Precarity in Montreal

Qualitative Health Research ◽

10.1177/10497323211051671 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 104973232110516

Author(s):

Vincent Wagner ◽

Jorge Flores-Aranda ◽

Ana Cecilia Villela Guilhon ◽

Shane Knight ◽

Karine Bertrand

Keyword(s):

Subjective Experience ◽

Time Perspective ◽

Social Issues ◽

Psychoactive Substance ◽

Community Based ◽

Substance Users ◽

Human Needs ◽

The Past ◽

Occupational Integration ◽

Experience Of Time

Young psychoactive substance users in social precarity are vulnerable to a range of health and social issues. Time perspective is one aspect to consider in supporting change. This study draws on the views expressed by young adults to portray their subjective experience of time, how this perception evolves and its implications for their substance use and socio-occupational integration trajectories. The sample includes 23 young psychoactive substance users ( M = 24.65 years old; 83% male) in social precarity frequenting a community-based harm reduction centre. Thematic analysis of the interviews reveals the past to be synonymous with disappointment and disillusionment, but also a constructive force. Participants expressed their present-day material and human needs as well as their need for recognition and a sense of control over their own destiny. Their limited ability to project into the future was also discussed. Avenues on how support to this population might be adapted are suggested.

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No Retreat, No Surrender: The Temporal Dimension of Psychic and Social Conflicts / Ni Retirarse Ni Rendirse: La Dimensión Temporal de los Conflictos Psíquicos y Sociales

FORUM ◽

10.3280/foru2010-004005 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 37-50

Author(s):

Giuseppe Fiorentini ◽

Giovanni Foresti

Keyword(s):

Social Structure ◽

Family Relationships ◽

Social Conflicts ◽

Chronological Order ◽

Temporal Dimension ◽

Psychic Development ◽

Experience Of Time ◽

The Individual ◽

Psychic Functioning

The authors suggest that there is a correlation between the current prevailing experience of time and some disorders in psychic functioning both at the level of the individual and in society. The disruption to the chronological order of psychic development is seen as a consequence of the immense cultural upheavals that took place during the 1970s and '80s. In turn, these changes are viewed as a consequence of more discreet modifications that impact on both family relationships and social structure.Los autores sugieren que existe una correlación entre la experiencia presente predominante del tiempo y algunos trastornos del funcionamiento psíquico tanto a nivel individual como social. La alteración del orden cronológico del desarrollo psíquico se considera como consecuencia de los terribles trastornos culturales que tuvieron lugar durante los ańos 70 y 80. A su vez, estos cambios se consideran como consecuencia de modificaciones más discretas que impactan tanto a las relaciones familiares como a la estructura social.

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