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Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes and conceptual thinking of performer training. Notions of time are embedded in almost every aspect of performer training, and so contributors to this book look at: age/aging and children in the training context how training impacts over a lifetime the duration of training and the impact of training regimes over time concepts of timing and the ‘right’ time how time is viewed from a range of international training perspectives collectives, ensembles and fashions in training, their decay or endurance. Through focusing on time and the temporal in performer training, this book offers innovative ways of integrating research into studio practices. It also steps out beyond the more traditional places of training to open up time in relation to contested training practices that take place online, in festival spaces and in folk or amateur practices. Ideal for both instructors and students, each section of this well-illustrated book follows a thematic structure and includes full-length chapters alongside shorter provocations. Featuring contributions from an international range of authors who draw on their backgrounds as artists, scholars and teachers, Time and Performer Training is a major step in our understanding of how time affects the preparation for performance. https://www.routledge.com/Time-and-Performer-Training/Evans-Thomaidis-Worth/p/book/9780815396284

- by Libby Worth
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- Performing Arts, Theatre Studies, Dance Studies, Performance Studies

How life is not a singularity, how you can truly be free, and how the conservative ideology is indeed illogical and antihuman. A thesis By: Shin-Ae Ahn Dedicated to: Steven Hawking (RIP) and those open minded enough to open up a book (that isn't a bible or some conservative hogwash), and read, instead of bullying someone to the brink of suicide (which is what conservatives do on a daily bases).

- by ShinAe Ahn
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- Space Sciences, Political Philosophy, Critical Realism, Gender and Sexuality
- by David Mick
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- Time-Consciousness, Time Studies, Consumer Behavior, Social Experience of Time

The present article argues that despite growing rates of single living worldwide, alternative representations of the single women who do not necessarily spend their life 'waiting for the one' are regularly absent from public view. By exploring the injunction as well as the option of non-waiting, this paper contributes to time studies by stressing how understandings of waiting inform hegemonic and alternative forms of temporal subjectivity and sociality. In the first part of this paper, I explore the ways in which the injunction to stop waiting is articulated in het-eronormative imagery. This call is regularly expressed with temporal urgency, and from this vantage point waiting comes to represent passivity and immobility. Accordingly, women are expected to 'move on' and be active in their own self-governance, which adapts to conventional norms of femininity. In the second part of this article, I demonstrate how the option of non-waiting dismantles and reworks heteronormative life scripts, and offers new subject positions for single women. These reflections propose alternative timetables that allow single women to reclaim their temporal agency and redefine their own temporal rhythms and life trajectories.

- by Kinneret Lahad
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- Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sex and Gender, Blogs

Over the past 25 years, the Brussels neighbourhoods confronted with the greatest difficulties have benefited from substantial public funds intended to renovate and revitalise them: 550 interventions on the built environment, 1730 housing units created, 130 elements of local infrastructure built, 850 socio-economic actions carried out and a large number of roadways and squares redesigned. Created in 1993, the “Neighbourhood Contract” rapidly became an emblematic tool of the Brussels public action and imposed itself as a structural and structuring policy. Beyond the many projects and actions implemented, there is also an entire social world that took shape around this project and that is composed of political actors, administrative agents, experts, associations and citizens. This publication traces the deployment of the Neighbourhood Contracts in Brussels over the past 25 years by means of an immersion in the discourse, imagination, steering, execution and administration of a long-term public action, recorded at different moments in its lifetime. The 14 situations that have been selected compose the sociological chronicle of an urban policy, from its birth to its current state of development, which today raises important questions. The text that concludes the work is the occasion for the author to question the “time perspectives” of the advocates and detractors of the Neighbourhood Contract, and to stir a public debate about the continuation or transformation of urban policymaking in Brussels.

- by Mathieu Berger
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- Sociology, Political Sociology, Public Administration, Architecture

Historiography, more than other human studies, has been confronted with the need to understand the nature of social time. Other disciplines, such as sociology and anthropology, often have pretended to escape timesociology by looking to the eternal verities of social order, and anthropology by looking to the archaic social orders which construed themselves as eternal. True, sociology and anthropology have not totally ignored time. Especially these days, anthropologists have begun to recognize the need to account for contemporary "savage" societies in relation to "developed" societies. And sociology was born of the recognition of social change in the industrial revolution. At its inception, it offered counterpoint to historiography by positing social change as a shift over time in broad complexes of often "mundane" culture, social activities, and institutions. But the main tendency of both sociology and anthropology has been ahistorical, and even anti-historical. Historians, on the other hand, have been concerned in large part with giving accounts of the unfoldings of past events; and this concern has required, at least implicitly, a theory of social time. Too often historians have solved their temporal problematic by the fiat of posing objective, chronological time as the basis for observing the march of events. By way of combatting this solution, theorists of historiography occasionally have suggested that the stuff of history itself is contained in other, potentially non-chronological, temporal phenomena. At least since the beginning of this century, the straightforward chronology of "scientific" history has been challenged in two alternative developments. On the one hand, certain historians have explored the relativity of multiple scales of objective time. On the other hand, subjectivist philosophers have described the character of inner timeconsciousness, or subjective time; and subjectivist historians have advanced a relativism based on the recognition of multiple social actors with diverse and often conflicting social interests. Each of these intellectual trends has tended to undermine the Rankean epistemology of history; no longer could a history of elites be taken to represent the autonomous unfolding spirit of historical development. But the relativities achieved in subjectivist and objectivist approaches remain incommensurate with one another, for they are based

- by John R. Hall
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- Cultural History, Time Studies, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Time

The urban environment is increasingly engaging with artificial intelligence, a focus on the automation of urban processes, whether it be singular artefacts or city-wide systems. The impact of such technological innovation on the social dynamics of the urban environment is an ever changing and multi-faceted field of research. In this paper, the space and time defined by the autonomous vehicle is used as a window to view the way in which a shift in urban transport dynamics can impact the temporal experience of an individual. Using the finite window of time created by an autonomous vehicle, a theoretical framework is put forward that seeks to show how contrasting narratives exist regarding the experience of the window of time within the autonomous vehicle. By taking a theoretical approach informed by social theory, the dissolution of barriers between separate spheres of life is explored to highlight the increased commodification of time. In focusing on both the space and time created by the autonomous vehicle this approach seeks to highlight how artificial intelligence can provide a contemporary space in the urban environment while also opening a new window of time. The cognitive dissonance observed when comparing the narratives of autonomous vehicle stakeholders and the historical shift in time use leads to a belief that technology makes the user more free in terms of time. With this paper the autonomous vehicle is shown to be an ideal space and time to view the way in which the use of such technology does not increase free-time, but further dissolves the boundaries between what is and what is not work-time.

In this paper I raise the question of whether audio–visual media, notably cinema, can be considered as technologies of time and if so, by what means and dynamics they operate on, in and with time1. The first two sections adopt a top–down approach. In section 2 I examine what forms time takes on in modernity, while I dedicate section 3 to the role played by cinema in this context. The second part, in turn, takes a bottom–up approach: in section 4 I take into consideration the processes of constitution of subjective temporal experience as they emerge from contemporary cognitive neuroscience; section 5, in turn, focuses on a couple of theories on the transition from the subjective to social experience of time. Finally, in the last section, I propose a hypothesis about the specific role of cinema in the transition from the subjective to the social dimension of temporality.

- by Ruggero Eugeni
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- Philosophy of Technology, Media Studies, Film Studies, Film Theory

Caroline Evans and Alessandra Vaccari are the co-editors of Il Tempo della Moda (Mimesis 2019), a collection of writings on the relationship of fashion and time. They are currently preparing an expanded English language edition for publication in the UK by Bloomsbury in 2020. Each being based in a different country, most of their exchanges on the topic have been by email. Vaccari teaches at IUAV University of Venice, Evans at Central Saint Martins in London. Below is an edited selection from their ongoing conversation.

- by Alessandra Vaccari
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- Art History, Performance Studies, Time Studies, Walter Benjamin

The author is trying to show the idea of unhygienic literature

- by Andrzej Marzec
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- Critical Theory, History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies

The bibliography on watches and watchmakers is currently abundant, but the space of watchmaking has not yet been analyzed from a historical point of view that shows us its material evolution and the changes in the functions it provided to society. This text argues that only from the 18th century we witness the emergence of watchmaking more as a store and less as a workshop or smithy. Specifically, the watch store appeared more and more separated from the other mechanical arts, dedicated to the sale, repair and adjustment of watches rather than to their manufacture. A sort of social institution of time disposed to instruct the public in the rudimentary matters, but also in more complex questions about mechanics, arithmetic, and astronomy. This phenomenon occurred in the most important cities of Spain and Latin America, practically at the same time as in the rest of Europe. — A pesar de la abundante bibliografía sobre relojes y relojeros, el espacio donde se ejerció el oficio de la relojería aún no se ha sometido a un análisis histórico que nos muestre su evolución material y los cambios en las funciones que brindó a la sociedad. En este texto se sostiene que solo a partir del siglo XVIII asistimos a la aparición de la relojería más como una tienda y menos como un taller o herrería. Se trató de un establecimiento que adquirió autonomía frente los demás oficios mecánicos, dedicado a la venta, reparación y ajuste de relojes más que a su manufactura. Una especie de institución social del tiempo dispuesta a instruir al público en asuntos rudimentarios, pero también en cuestiones más complejas sobre mecánica, aritmética y astronomía. Fenómeno que se presentó en las ciudades más importantes de España y América, prácticamente a la par del resto de Europa. — Publicación completa en: https://www.trea.es/books/sobre-espana-en-el-largo-siglo-xviii

A collection of essays, 1987-2007.

- by Larry Richards
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- Cybernetics, Time Studies, Technology and Society, Participatory Democracy
- by Ursula Ströbele
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- Time Studies, Sculpture, Temporality, Pierre Huyghe

Terre fertile en paralittératures, familière des littératures de l’imaginaire, la Belgique semble paradoxalement peu représentée dans la veine utopique. Si en France le récit d’anticipation moderne se constitue en prolongement, souvent négatif, de l’utopie narrative d’Ancien Régime, la situation est plus difficile à déterminer pour la Belgique, où cette écriture n’a pas acquis de véritable visibilité auctoriale ou éditoriale et paraît loin de constituer un genre autonome. On reconnaît plus volontiers à la littérature belge d’expression française ses particularités, tôt développées, dans les domaines du fantastique et de la science-fiction. Il s’agit assurément d’esthétiques voisines, mais il ne faudrait pas les confondre. Roger Bozzetto a insisté pour considérer le fantastique et la fiction spéculative comme « deux genres spécifiques avec des origines, des généalogies et des visées différentes » , tandis que Darko Suvin a proposé des critères distinguant l’utopie de la science-fiction . Sous la désignation de « littérature utopique » peuvent se regrouper des œuvres qui ont en commun les caractéristiques de la fiction prospective ou conjecturale associées à un traitement rationnel, généralement centré sur des préoccupations sociétales. Une telle définition repose à la fois sur des traits narratifs (cadre spatio-temporel d’anticipation), figuratifs (représentations de la collectivité humaine) et logiques (lien de vraisemblance entre monde fictif représenté et référence au réel). Ce numéro de la revue Textyles proposera un premier état des lieux de cette production hybride, disparate et peu considérée. Il associera, pour ce faire, des études de cas à une réflexion d’ensemble.

- by Valérie Stiénon
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- Future Studies, Dystopian Literature, Popular Culture, Social Representations

Ces 25 dernières années, les quartiers bruxellois les plus en difficulté ont bénéficié d’importants financements publics destinés à les rénover et les revitaliser : 550 interventions sur le bâti, 1730 logements créés, 130 équipements de proximité construits, 850 actions socio-économiques menées et un grand nombre de voiries et de places requalifiées. Créé en 1993, le « Contrat de quartier » est rapidement devenu un instrument emblématique de l’action publique bruxelloise et s’est imposé comme une politique structurelle et structurante. Au-delà des nombreux projets et actions réalisés, c’est aussi tout un univers politico-administratif, expert, associatif et citoyen qui s’est construit autour de ce dispositif. Cet ouvrage retrace le déploiement des Contrats de quartier bruxellois sur 25 ans d’existence, à travers une immersion dans le discours, l’imaginaire, le pilotage, l’exécution et l’administration d’une action publique au long cours, saisie à différents moments de son histoire. Les quatorze situations choisies composent la chronique sociologique d’une politique urbaine, de sa naissance à son état de développement actuel, qui pose aujourd’hui d’importantes questions. Le texte qui clôt l’ouvrage est l’occasion pour l’auteur d’interroger les « perspectives temporelles » des défenseurs et des détracteurs de l’outil Contrat de quartier, et d’appeler à un débat public sur la poursuite ou la transformation des politiques de la ville à Bruxelles.

- by Mathieu Berger
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- Political Sociology, Public Administration, Architecture, Urban Politics

This paper investigates ‘pause’ and ‘duration’ as conceptual resources to expand current design approaches to place, technology, and experience in museums to the extended temporality of heritage practice. The author strives to understand ‘through design’ how we come to value objects, places and events through multiple and repeated interactions. In doing so, the author contributes to expand the boundaries of interaction design beyond individuals acting ‘in the moment’ (pause) to individuals and communities participating ‘across time’ (duration) in the cultural production of memory and identity.

- by Elisa Giaccardi
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- Design, Cultural Heritage, Ubiquitous Computing, Human Values

The dawn of the new crystalline age and the Ascension progression has been discussed within the context of the new 144 Crystalline Grid and its relevance to the Harmonic Convergence of 1987, the Cosmic Trigger of the triple dates, and the... more

An Account of the ‘main’ dimensional structure of the Nebadon Universe has been presented. It is explicated that being situated practically at the edge of the Cosmos, the Nebadon constitutes the densest of what was co-created to be a part of the First Superuniverse or the ‘Higher Heaven’ within the God’s Worlds. Accordingly, Nebadon exists within the first 12 ‘main’ dimensions of the Cosmos, in which a total of 356 such ‘non-singular’ dimensions may be defined. It is further elucidated that the main dimensions of the Cosmos may be defined via discretization of the cosmological vector of time, that is commensurate with discretizing the angle of spin of the fundamental quanta of energy, as it is the energetic quantum spin that defines the very advent of time. Accordingly, Nebadon may be perceived as a hologram within the Cosmos that consists of a series of hologram-within-hologram referred to as space-time dimensions each of which is created via projection of a Light of certain characteristic frequency and Light quotient or color. Think of Nebadon as a prism that divides the Threefold Founder Flame composed of the Emerald Order Blue-Aqua Ray, the Gold Order Ray of Gold, and the Amethyst Order Violet-Magenta Ray, all together describing the Trinity of the Godhead that manifest as self-similar fractal aspects or offspring of ITSELF, giving rise to the dimensional structure of Nebadon. Accordingly, such Light beings that are originally of fully crystalline or Christos-Sophia Angelic Oraphim pedigree emanating from the Seven Higher Heavens, or more specifically, dimensions 13th to 15th, referred to as the Realm of Rishis, Breneau, Guardian-Founders, or simply the Oraphim, entered a new territory within the Void to co-create and incarnate or seed the Nebadon Universe. And, upon doing so spearheaded by the 14D RA family, or simply the RA, exploded-imploded upon ITSELF, disseminating its quanta of energy as Light to set its quanta of energy into spinning giving rise to the advent of time in the Nebadon Universe, practically, converting this portion of Void to a universe comprised of a 12 DISCRETE space-time dimensional structure or system with the advent of time congealing (progressively diminishing its velocity of spin) to give rise to such a DISCRETE dimensional system. Note that the advent of explosion-implosion also forms a mirrored form of such space-time dimensional structure as a conjugate system, symbiotically and simultaneously, and in conformance with the Dualism Principle of Creation, that are referred to as the Worlds of Matter and Antimatter, with the central DISCRETE layer forming the basis of the Zero-Point Field that describes a Neutral World connecting Nebadon to the Neural Network of God. Accordingly, the Guardian-Founders of Nebadon, with the particular initiative of the Emerald Order, who incarnated as a White Feline Hominid Avatar Anuhazi species on the 12th dimension, formed the predecessors to current human race who were destined to be the link to the God-SOURCE. Accordingly, upon demise of the first Angelic form of humans on the 12D Aramatena-Lyra by the negative aliens, they proceeded to create the Monadic form of humans on 7D Gaia, and as this race was also annihilated by the negative aliens later, they finally seeded the Angelic humans as a Turaneusiam prototype of 12D crystalline silicate-based DNA on the 5D Tara. As the negative aliens also triggered the Fall of Tara by causing the explosion of its core and consciousness grid to fall into pieces within the lower 3 dimensions, through the initiative of the Paliadorian Guardian-Founders, the consciousness pieces of humans were gathered as to create our present form with a morphogenetic field that is commensurate with functioning within these lower frequential-Light quotient dimensions of Nebadon that we call Earth.

- by Mohsen Paul Sarfarazi
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- Space Sciences, Metaphysics of Time, Time Studies, Philosophy of Time

A geometric model has been introduced for the dimensional depiction of consciousness. According to this model, a consciousness 'dimension' may be represented through definition of concentric spherical layers in space/innerspace stretching from an innermost point representing the SOURCE God to the physically identifiable outermost layers. It is further suggested that the illustration of dimensional space may be simplified via definition of a two-dimensional unit vector identifying a 'plane of consciousness.' This plane is defined through specification of, respectively, the 'vector of time' and 'vector of space' defining a mutually orthogonal set of Cartesian coordinate system composed of time as one axis and space as the other axis. In this respect, a dimension of consciousness may be depicted by the angle that the planar unit vector subtends with of these axes (time or space) chosen as a reference axis that represents an eigenvalue and is referred to as the 'dimensional angle,' and by the unit vector subtending the aforementioned plane that represents the eigenvector and is referred to as the 'dimensional vector.'

Este libro se asoma, desde un momento crítico como el actual, a otro tiempo convulso, el de las revoluciones liberales y de independencia en los mundos ibéricos, y lo hace desde un prisma poco común: el de la semántica histórica. A mitad de camino entre la historia intelectual, la historia política y la historia cultural, el enfoque histórico-conceptual aquí adoptado presta una atención muy especial a los cambios en los vocabularios usados por los actores de la época y a las hondas transformaciones en la conciencia temporal que tuvieron lugar en aquellas décadas decisivas que alumbraron un nuevo mundo político sobre las ruinas de los imperios atlánticos.
Además de analizar algunos aspectos cruciales de las modernidades ibéricas, incluyendo los cambios en los conceptos, mitos, metáforas e imaginarios, así como en las percepciones del tiempo por parte de los actores del siglo XIX, el autor plantea reflexiones de gran interés sobre algunos puntos esenciales para la disciplina histórica y para cualquier acercamiento al pasado, tales como para qué sirve la historia, la recuperación de los significados perdidos, los saltos en la conciencia histórica y los retos que el historiador responsable deberá afrontar en los difíciles tiempos que se avecinan.

The current competitiveness of garment manufacturing industries is highly dependent on ability to improve efficiency and effectiveness of resource utilization through proper application of industrial engineering techniques such as line balancing and time study. However, very few apparel industries have comprehended industrial engineering function due to little knowledge on practical application of industrial engineering techniques. The present study aimed at balancing a trouser assembly line using the ranked positional weight technique to increase the line efficiency as well as minimize the number of workstations without violating the constraints: precedence relations, cycle time, and resource type. The empirical study was conducted at Southern Range Nyanza Limited (NYTIL) garment manufacturing facility to demonstrate the practical application of ranked positional weight line balancing technique. Results showed that ranked positional weight method is suitable only for assembly line balancing with no constraint on the resource. However, most complex garment assembly lines consist of a number of different machine types rendering ranked positional weight method practically ineffective for improving line efficiency of a complex garment assembly line. Therefore, profound line balancing using simulation-based optimization to improve the line efficiency of complex garment assembly line should be investigated.

The mechanics of consciousness as pertains to projection of coherent light on a soul has been discussed. It is elucidated that consciousness is discrete in nature and occurs on a quantum scale through flashing of adamantine or Akash particles. These particulate units of consciousness flow or convert from antimatter in the ethereal to matter in the physical and vice versa via a purely conservative process that is both cyclic and non-dissipative in terms of energy consumption. It is further explained that this flashing of the light of consciousness is facilitated through black and white holes contained with the conical vortices of our chakras that serve as energetic particle accelerators. The fundamental principle behind the inhaling ‘in’ and exhaling ‘out’ of the antimatter-matter and its reverse process is that it occurs sequentially among various distinct continuums of time and space within separate parallels of dimensional consciousness that define our multidimensionality. These processes occur all spontaneously in the continuous NOW moment without any discernment in our physical consciousness within a particular parallel. Two parameters are envisioned to describe the extent of consciousness within a parallel that, in essence, are indigenous to that particular continuum of time and space within the said particular dimensional reality. These are the ‘light quotient’ that depicts the decay time of consciousness between sequential flashes of light of consciousness, the so-called ‘darkening period,’ and the resonant ‘frequency of vibration’ of that particular parallel dimension. It is envisaged that the notion of multidimensionality within a particular parallel dimension of reality is accentuated as the natural frequency of vibration or light quotient of a Soul Aspect animating within that parallel is increased. Finally, it is explicated that a crystalline form such as the well anticipated ‘Light Body genetics’ comprised of silicate-based, ordered and coherent, crystalline molecular matter is thought to merge the limited frontal mind with that of the divine God Mind, culminating in expedient consciousness expansion, and refined discernment of multidimensionality. Furthermore, it is clarified that a crystalline form has the advantage of ‘tuning’ the human energy field harmonically to myriads of dimensional fields more effectively, thus reducing the ‘darkening period’ between discrete consecutive flashes of consciousness within a parallel.

- by Cecilia Rodéhn
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- African Studies, Cultural Policy, Museum Studies, Cultural Heritage

EMOTION QUITE LITERALLY BOLTS MEMORIES TOGETHER, ALL OF WHICH PORTEND A PREDETERMINED FUTURE. LOGIC IS ALSO INVOLVED DUE TO LINEAL TIME, WHICH DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST. THUS, LOGIC AND THE BOLTS OF EMOTION SUFFER MULTIPLE DEATHS HEREIN.... more

- by MIKE EMERY
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- History, Logic And Foundations Of Mathematics, Physics, Electromagnetism

Contemporary geographical thought is constrained by a political economic imagination rooted in binarism, which is exemplified in debates surrounding neoliberalism. Neoliberal proponents call for decentralization and increased capital flows, while Marxists respond by pairing centralization with capitalism’s abrogation. The latter view considers hierarchy necessary, a position that promotes authority and regards horizontal politics as propitious to neoliberalism. Anarchism’s coupling of decentralization with anti-capitalism is dismissed because Marxism cannot accommodate the processuality of prefigurative politics. Marxism demands a revolution with a masterplan, considering horizontality a future objective. Such a temporality ignores the insurrectionary possibilities of the present and implies a politics of waiting. The spatial implications of centralized hierarchy are also questionable, employing a vertical ontology, wherein horizontal organization is deemed inappropriate when ‘jumping scales’. Yet scale represents both a theoretical dis-traction from grounded everyday particularities and a ‘master-signifier’ by providing a point de capiton, or anchoring point, that rests on the exclusion of unconsciousness–the knowledge that is not known¬. Thus the point de capiton is the (Archimedean) point at which an essentialist illusion of fixed meaning is created, as scale is unconscious of geography’s ‘hidden enfolded immensities’. The discourse of scale accordingly dismisses the openness of rhizomic politics by predetermining the political as an arborescent register. Yet the inevitable terra incognita that scalar hierarchies produce becomes a powerful resource for the oppressed, which is why anarchist direct action often proceeds outside of authority’s view. A flat ontology has significant resonance with anarchism, imparting that politics should operate horizontally rather than vertically. This ontological shift suggests that we need not wait for the emergence of a ‘greater’ class-consciousness, as one can immediately disengage capitalism by reorienting economic landscapes in alternative ways. Consequently, a human geography without hierarchy gains significant traction when we reject scale and embrace an anarchist flat ontology.

- by Simon Springer
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- Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, History

- by Ocident Bongomin and +1
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- Operations Research, Time Studies, Key Performance Indicators, Assembly line balancing

American life seems pressed for time, and journalists claim they must focus on the now because of competition and technology. Shorter news cycles a ect the deadlines for producing live reports on television and constant updates online. Without time to investigate or edit, journalists say their work deteriorates, leaving the public uninformed. But our studies of newspaper, television, and internet news reveal that time in news coverage has been expanding into the past and the future for decades, re ecting news reporters' professional and modernist claims to prioritize events in time. As temporal concepts transformed at the end of the twentieth century, journalists continued producing reports that re ect modern time regimes. e recent closings of mainstream newspapers, and the consequences journalists see for news quality and public policy, ow to some degree from their modernist sense of time that leaves them disconnected from the current time regime.

- by Kevin G Barnhurst
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- Media Studies, Journalism, Television Studies, Content Analysis

"The aim of this article is to analyze the literary passages mentioning the measurement of time and the calendars, as well as to highlight the relations among those gods who are involved in this task. A brief and general synthesis on the units of time and on the calendars closes the article.
[Keywords: assyriology, Mesopotamia, cuneiform, calendar, astronomy, mythology]"

- by Lorenzo Verderame
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- Sumerian Religion, Mythology, Near Eastern Studies, Semitic languages

This article develops a framework for reading the maroon in literature, drawing on the maroon's historical and contemporary significance in the Caribbean, as well as its continuing resonance for writers and thinkers. The maroon's separateness or withdrawal, I argue, is characterized by a spatial distance that also engenders a challenge to the authority and temporality of the colonial regime or the apartheid state. I turn to Alejo Carpentier and J.M. Coetzee to offer readings of their novels through the lens of marronage, analyzing their protagonists' flight, labor, and " idleness " as newly legible dimensions of resistive waiting. The strategies of marronage encourage new readings of the formulations of freedom and unfreedom, resistance and refusal in the literary texts, and create a " line of flight " between the Caribbean and South Africa.

Historians occasionally use timelines, but many seem to regard such signs merely as ways of visually summarizing results that are presumably better expressed in prose. Challenging this language-centered view, I suggest that timelines might assist the generation of novel historical insights. To show this, I begin by looking at studies confirming the cognitive benefits of diagrams like timelines. I then try to survey the remarkable diversity of timelines by analyzing actual examples. Finally, having conveyed this (mostly untapped) potential, I argue that neglecting timelines might mean neglecting significant aspects of reality that are revealed only by those signs. My overall message is that, once we accept that relations are as important for the mind as what they relate, we have to pay closer attention to any semiotic device that enables or facilitates the discernment of new relations.

- by Marc Champagne
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- Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, History, American History
- by Shonaleeka Kaul
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- Hinduism, Mythology, Sanskrit, Time Studies

Against interpretations that posit Aristotle and Augustine as the founders of the two poles of the aporia of time that allegedly runs through the Western tradition, this article suggests that the aporia of time is a product of modern social time regimes and proposes a reading of Aristotle and Augustine's conceptions of time in context. As such, Aristotle's 'objective' conception of time is found to rather unify humans and their world through symbolic mediation, while Augustine's 'subjective' conception of time is read rather as a subordination of time to God.

- by Jonathan Martineau
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- Christianity, History, Intellectual History, Cultural History

The paper at hand interrogates the queer temporal politics of “houses” in the ballroom and voguing scene. Houses constitute the axiomatic unit of this community marked by racial and sexual marginalisation and as such create alternative familial relations between members in response to rejections from the biological family and society in general. Mirroring the traditional family institution, vogue houses not only become a source of protection, care, trust and knowledge; their very structure, I argue, induces a queer repro-generational time. Countering the sequential heteronormative
time of lifetime milestones and age-tting achievements, the queer time of voguing is a temporal disidentication that jumbles around and constructively misappropriates
generational and reproductive imperatives. In doing this, the politics of voguing opens the horizon of possible futures: it is a spark of embodied resistance with a queer utopian imaginary.

- by Mathias Klitgård
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- Queer Studies, Subcultures, Time Studies, Voguing
- by kasim keskin
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- Feminist Theory, Time Studies, Philosophy of Time, Time Perception
- by Benjamin Reiss
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- American Literature, Cultural History, American Studies, Disability Studies

Repetition has emerged as a critical term in modern European philosophy, aesthetics, gender studies, and theology, from its early utilization in the critique of teleological models of memory (Søren Kierkegaard), history (Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx), and the self (Sigmund Freud); its role in experimental modernist writing (Charles Péguy, Raymond Roussel, Gertrude Stein); and its centrality for critiques of authorship (Jacques Derrida) and representation (Gilles Deleuze) right up to helping conceptualize the order of music (Adam Ockelford), sexual difference (Judith Butler), and a theological ontology based on insistence (Catherine
Pickstock). European and North American academic interest in Buddhist iterative forms of cosmology and time, particularly those inherent in concepts of rebirth and world renewal, has confined itself to the largely representational paradigm of the cyclical and the linear, at best using repetition to distinguish between the two. One of the aims of this chapter is to contribute, with the help of select passages from Theravāda texts,
toward a shift from a geometrical and typological way of thinking about time to an event- and language-oriented one, involving speaker participation and linguistic self-reflexivity, repeating, so to speak, the insights of some of the authors mentioned earlier. The term repetition will
allow us to think about time, not from a place outside of time from which types of time appear in lines and circles but from a time within time, the time between one repetition and the other, where time could be made explicit or may remain implied. It is a time that is thoroughly mediated by the linguistic practices, including translation, of Pāli, English, and other idioms, a mediation out of which, among many other things, the discourses of time, line, and circle have emerged.