Introduction

Chronometres ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Krista Lysack
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Devotional Literature ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Empty Time

The introduction lays out the argument that what distinguished Victorian devotional literature was not a set of generic conventions but the experience of time, that is to say the form and feel of devotion’s reading durations. After identifying Victorian chronometrical print as a unique variety of devotional literature, the introduction goes on to explore the multi-scalar nature of the Victorian period with particular attention to industrial clock time and “empty time.” After discussing reading as a peculiarly temporal everyday practice, it goes on to note the affective nature of durational reading. By focusing on the operations of measured and felt time, the introduction makes a case for Victorian devotion as the uniquely material and affective observance of incremental time. After a brief discussion of the book’s relevance to recent critiques of the secularization thesis and to recent scholarship on the religious turn, the introduction closes with a brief summary of each of the book’s six chapters and with some speculations about the temporal affinities between conceptions of eternity and the quotidian.

Parents’ Experience of Time Distortion Following Diagnosis of a Serious or Lethal Fetal Anomaly

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 212-221
Author(s):  
Sally de-Vitry Smith ◽  
Elaine Dietsch ◽  
Ann Bonner
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Fetal Anomaly ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
Maternal Fetal Medicine ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Future Child ◽  
Time Distortion ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Unborn Baby

PURPOSE:To explore the experience of couples who continued pregnancy following a diagnosis of serious or lethal fetal anomaly.STUDY DESIGN:Thirty-one male and female participants were recruited from a high-risk maternal–fetal medicine clinic in Washington State. Data were collected using in-depth interviews during pregnancy and after the birth of their baby. Transcribed interviews were thematically analyzed through the phenomenological lens of Merleau-Ponty.FINDINGS:Participants described how time became reconfigured and reconstituted as they tried to compress a lifetime of love for their future child into a limited period. Participants’ concepts of time became distorted and were related to their perceptual lived experience rather than the schedule-filled, regimented, linear clock time that governed the health professionals.CONCLUSION:Living in distorted time may be a mechanism parents use to cope with overwhelming and disorienting feelings when their unborn baby is diagnosed with a fetal anomaly.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Lecourt
Keyword(s):  
Free Play ◽  
Anthropology Of Religion ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

The introductory chapter sketches the emergence of the anthropology of religion over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Reading this history through the lens of recent scholarship on secularization, it explores how different anthropological constructions of religion came to underpin competing understandings of modernity itself. It then traces how specifically liberal views of religion in Britain diverged during the 1860s around what one might call the split between political and aesthetic liberalisms: the liberalism of abstract individualism and the liberalism of intellectual free play and diverse experiences. The Victorian period saw these two liberalisms first part ways over the normative nature of religion and what kind of subjectivity it defined.

scholarly journals One Time, Many Times

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahul Rao
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Review Article ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

This review article surveys recent work on time and temporality in international relations. It begins with an overview of Kimberly Hutchings’s influential history of ideas exploring the relationship between chronos (quantitative experience of time) and kairos (qualitative conceptualisation of time). Building on the architecture of Hutchings’s argument, it surveys more recent scholarship that supplements, extends and complicates her insights in two ways. First, while Hutchings focuses on the way in which theorisations of kairos shift over time, the development of a unified global chronotic imaginary was itself a contested process, frequently interrupted by kairotic considerations. Second, while Hutchings is interested in western conceptualisations of kairos, recent work has shifted the analytical focus to those subject positions marginalised by such kairotic imaginaries.

scholarly journals Accumulation of Salient Perceptual Events Predicts Human Subjective Time

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxine T. Sherman ◽  
Zafeirios Fountas ◽  
Anil K. Seth ◽  
Warrick Roseboom
Keyword(s):  
Time Perception ◽  
Sensory Processing ◽  
Computational Modelling ◽  
Subjective Time ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
Healthy Human ◽  
Time Estimates ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Human Participants ◽  
Computational Basis

AbstractHuman experience of time exhibits systematic, context-dependent deviations from objective clock time, for example, time is experienced differently at work than on holiday. However, leading explanations of time perception are not equipped to explain these deviations. Here we test the idea that these deviations arise because time estimates are constructed by accumulating the same quantity that guides perception: salient events. To test this, healthy human participants watched naturalistic, silent videos and estimated their duration while fMRI was acquired. Using computational modelling, we show that accumulated events in visual, auditory and somatosensory cortex all predict ‘clock time’, but duration biases reflecting human experience of time could only be predicted from the region involved in modality-specific sensory processing: visual cortex. Our results reveal that human subjective time is based on information arising during the processing of our dynamic sensory environment, providing a computational basis for an end-to-end account of time perception.

The sense of time in the north: a Sámi perspective

Polar Record ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuccio Mazzullo
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
The North ◽  
Finnish Lapland ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
Perception Of Time

ABSTRACTThis paper refers to some aspects of the theoretical anthropological debate on the perception of time and I shall argue, following Ingold (2000) that amongst the Sámi people time is understood as an unfolding of interrelated tasks, rather than as a linear succession of standardised and arbitrary units. I also argue that the Sámi perception of time is not opposed to the western perception, but rather entails a different approach to the significance of clock time. The results of my fieldwork, conducted among the Sámi people in Finnish Lapland, lend support to the idea that the basis for a people's shared understanding and subjective experience of time lies in the interaction of skilful agents in carrying out diverse but interrelated tasks. It is not sufficient to live in a place, to belong to a particular ethnic group or to be engaged in the same subsistence activity to perceive time in a certain fashion. No matter how much we change the combination of actors, the perception of time is generated in each case through situated activity within the landscape.

scholarly journals Mnemonic content and hippocampal patterns shape judgments of time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynn E Sherman ◽  
Sarah DuBrow ◽  
Jonathan Winawer ◽  
Lila Davachi
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Pattern ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
Pattern Change ◽  
Memory Integration ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Pattern Similarity ◽  
Left Hippocampus ◽  
Temporal Compression ◽  
Perception Of Time

Our experience of time can feel dilated or compressed, rather than reflecting true 'clock time.' Although many contextual factors influence the subjective perception of time, it is unclear how memory accessibility plays a role in constructing our experience of and memory for time. Here, we used a combination of behavioral and fMRI measures to ask the question of how memory is incorporated into temporal duration judgments. Behaviorally, we found that event boundaries, which have been shown to disrupt ongoing memory integration processes, result in the temporal compression of duration judgments. Additionally, using a multivoxel pattern similarity analysis of fMRI data, we found that greater temporal pattern change in the left hippocampus within individual trials was associated with longer duration judgments. Together, these data suggest that mnemonic processes play a role in constructing representations of time.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 290-294
Author(s):  
Vincent Evener
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Devotional Literature ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

Recent scholarship has often focused on the failure of sixteenth-century reform aspirations; scholars have also questioned the coherence and historical significance of the Reformation. The present study brings into relief a yet-unresolved question underlying these debates: what did reformers want to achieve? Scholars have highlighted numerous goals (relief from the social and psychological burdens of late-medieval religion, Christianization, consolation, certitude); this book views the reformers’ central concern as truth and the alignment of Christian life around truth. Luther, Karlstadt, and Müntzer agreed that human self-assertion in thinking and willing was the root of religious deception; thus, they agreed in seeing suffering both as key to the reception and perception of truth and as an inevitable consequence of life according to truth in a fallen world. Eckhartian mysticism inspired and aided their work to teach discernment and self-discipline. Such pedagogical efforts continued through the preaching, printed sermons and postils, and devotional literature of the early modern era, and it is inappropriate to pass judgment on the success or failure of the Reformation without attending to that literature.

Edmund Husserl’s Internal Time Consciousness and Modern Times, a Socio-historical Interpretation

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-234
Author(s):  
Jonathan Martineau
Keyword(s):  
Modern Time ◽  
Philosophy Of Time ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Time Consciousness ◽  
Objective Time ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Unique Experience ◽  
Key Issues

Abstract This article revisits Edmund Husserl’s philosophy of time in light of the modern standardisation of time. After assessing Husserl’s innovative analysis of the experience of time and raising key issues pertaining to his derivation of objective time from an originary ‘absolute flux of consciousness’, the article addresses potential relationships between this conception of time and the historically unique experience of time based in the rise of modern clock-time. Drawing on insights from the literature within the sociology of time, the article concludes that Husserl’s conception of time both reproduces and rejects certain features of modern time relations.

scholarly journals Working in Time: From Barbarism to Repetition

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 565
Author(s):  
Amber Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Human Labor ◽  
Michel Henry ◽  
Unit Of Measurement ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies

The task of ethicists, philosophers, and theologians to restore the dignity of human labor and vocation in a (post)industrial, techno-driven society is motivated by an often unacknowledged concern to restore the underlying spirituality of the human experience of work. Due to its ability to interrogate the range of givenness in human experience, phenomenology is a method particularly suited to explore this spiritual dimension. In this essay, I offer a phenomenological analysis that attends to the way our experience of time either suppresses or discloses the underlying spirituality of work. (Post)industrial societies reduce time to “clock time”, or an objective unit of measurement of production. Since increased production per unit of time is necessary for profit, we live and work in a society that is continually racing against the clock, and we find ourselves existentially pitted against it. I diagnose this reductionistic perspective of time, and its ensuing consequences, as a form of what Michel Henry calls “barbarism”. Setting aside the assumption of time as exclusively “clock time”, I then attend phenomenologically to other ways in which time gives itself to consciousness, namely, in cuisine, music, and craftsmanship. Finally, while Henry is helpful in analyzing the spiritual destitution of such an approach to time (and, consequently, to work), ultimately I turn to Kierkegaard’s account of temporality, specifically as articulated in the philosophical category of repetition, to disclose time as constitutive of our work and thus to demonstrate the spiritual significance of human vocation.

scholarly journals New dimensions of the perception and experience of time in conditions of the global risk society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana V. Petkova
Keyword(s):  
Global Perspective ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
Global Risk ◽  
Global Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Time ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Historical Dynamics ◽  
Sense Of Time

This study aims to present new dimensions of the perception and experience of time in the conditions of the global risk society. The article attempts to answer the question of how the new global perspective changes the sense of time – its passage, flow, fulfillment, omission, passing, etc. It is analyzed how the clock time moves to the network flexible time of the global society. The main points in the article are: Conceptualization and historical dynamics of social time; The sense of time – Man and time – “measurability” and “limit” Man, society, space and time – the limit of eternity; From clock time to network flexible time – From the clock time to…, Flexible time, the changed attitude towards the future and the past.

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