Phenomenology of Temporality

Consumer Goods as Dialogue About Development

by Richard Wilk

Published first in 1990, Culture & History, 7: 79-100.
also published in 1995 as Consumer Goods as Dialogue about Development: Colonial Time and Television Time in Belize." in Consumption and Identity, J. Friedman, ed., Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic. pp. 97-118.

An early effort to think about why middle class consumers in Belize are so deeply interested in buying and owning... more An early effort to think about why middle class consumers in Belize are so deeply interested in buying and owning foreign goods. I argue that rather than being a form of copying or emulation, consumption acts in an almost magical way to try to call a particular future into being.

Soliciting Sailors: The Temporal Dynamics of Dockside Prostitution in South Africa

by Henry Trotter

Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol.35, No.3 (Sept 2009): 699-713

This paper examines the temporal dynamics of dockside prostitution in South Africa. It assesses how foreign sailors'... more This paper examines the temporal dynamics of dockside prostitution in South Africa. It assesses how foreign sailors' movements in and out of the country influence local prostitutes' solicitation strategies. It also considers the cultural legacies of their intimate engagements.

The paper focuses on two distinct temporal regimes that define sailors' experiences: the rapid turnaround cycle of Durban's container ship sector and the slower turnaround cycle of Cape Town's deep sea trawling sector.

It makes three sequentially related arguments: that sailors' temporal constraints dictate which solicitation techniques local prostitutes use; that solicitation techniques determine how culture is transmitted between the two ethnically alterior parties; and that the style of cultural transmission impacts how the sailors' cultures are ultimately received by the prostitutes and their communities.

Colonial Time and TV Time

by Richard Wilk

Published as Wilk, Richard 1994 "Colonial Time and TV Time."  Visual Anthropology Review 10(1):94-102

A proposal for a global political economy of time, connecting the control of time to the colonial mastering of... more A proposal for a global political economy of time, connecting the control of time to the colonial mastering of cultural dominance and geographic distance. While ostensibly about television, the same argument could be extended to the way mass media such as radio and film worked under tight government control during the colonial era.

Debate about the effect of television in small and poor countries usually flows through the familiar channels of domination and resistance, globalization and localization, imperialism and local revitalization. Based on fieldwork in Belize, this paper suggests that this debate is itself a crucial "effect" of television, because it focuses attention on particular aspects of the nation and its identity. The debate about television is an important form of moral discourse, around which new political coalitions and alignments can emerge. At another level, discourse about television conceals dramatic transformations in the temporal order, in the way time is perceived in relation to space and power. In this paper I argue that the immediacy of satellite television has broken the linkage between time,¬ space, and culture that is essential to colonial and neo-colonial¬ consciousness. After satellite television, Belize remains distant, but it ¬is no longer "in the past." 

Vulnerability & the Time-Constituting Synthesis

by Emily K. S. Wilkins

I'm working here with Edmund Husserl's account of the structural role of living temporality, and testing its application to cases of severe trauma, in which aspects of the temporal structure appear to suffer "damages" (Brison 2002), (Levi 1989). Your feedback is appreciated!

"CE QUI CHANGE ET LE DÉJÀ FAIT" Diachronie et synchronie dans les sciences sociales et historiques

by Bastien Bosa

Published in: Revue européenne des sciences sociales no 49-2 – p.169-196

Résumé. Cet article propose une réflexion sur la place de la diachronie et de la synchronie dans la recherche... more Résumé. Cet article propose une réflexion sur la place de la diachronie et de la synchronie dans la recherche sociale, en partant de l’une des contradictions indépassables pour toute appréhension du temps. Celui-ci peut être pensé sous l’angle de la concomitance (dont chacun a fait l’expérience et qui revient à penser le temps comme une « succession de présents différents ») ou sous l’angle des processus (c’est-à-dire de la modification permanente des conditions de l’expérience en fonction d’une différentiation entre passé, présent et futur). Nous nous interrogerons sur ce que signifie travailler dans la diachronie ou dans la synchronie, en soulignant notamment la difficulté à distinguer clairement les deux approches : de nombreuses recherches habituellement pensées comme diachroniques ne le sont peut-être pas et, réciproquement, des approches pensées comme synchroniques s’articulent presque nécessairement avec une pensée des processus.

Abstract. This article proposes a reflection on the place of the synchrony-diachrony distinction in social research. The understanding of time is structured by a recurring contradiction: time can be thought of in terms of “concomitant experiences” (time appears in that perspective as a “succession of different presents”) or in terms of “processes” (insisting on the permanent modifications of social life on the basis of a differentiation between past, present and future). I will try to present as clearly as possible diachronic and synchronic approaches, before stressing the difficulty to separate them: some researches usually thought of as diachronic might include other dimensions, while conversely, investigations presented as synchronic almost necessarily articulate processual perspectives.

Chrostowska, S. D. “Angelus Novus, Angst of History"

by Sylwia Chrostowska

Forthcoming in diacritics, 2012.

Surfism: The fluid foundation of consciousness

by Dan Webber

Zen and the Art of Surfboard Design

by Dan Webber

Bergson’s Challenge: Theorizing a "Non-Cinematographic" Cinema

by Jeremy Heilman

MA Thesis

Intuition et finitude dans la lecture heideggérienne de Kant

by Maria Hotes

Référence complète :
Maria Hotes (2012). « Intuition et finitude dans la lecture heideggérienne de Kant », in Revue Phares, vol. 12, Hiver 2012, pp. 77-101.

La version finale est disponible sur le site de la revue : [http://www.ulaval.ca/phares/vol12-hiver12/texte05.html].

Erlebnis e Dasein. Un confronto tra l'ermeneutica diltheyana e il pensiero del giovane Heidegger

by Marco Cavallaro

Bergson and Derrida: A Question of Writing Time as Philosophy's Other

by Daniel Alipaz

Published in 'The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy - Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française,' Vol XIX, No 2 (2011) pp 96-120. This article can be viewed and uploaded for free on the journal's website's: http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/471/572

Following the 1988 publication of Bergsonism by Gilles Deleuze, many contemporary critics such as Leonard Lawlor and... more Following the 1988 publication of Bergsonism by Gilles Deleuze, many contemporary critics such as Leonard Lawlor and Paul Douglass have re-contextualized Bergson within poststructuralism. In so doing, Bergsonian theory enables us to readdress questions associated with concepts of temporality and their relation to language. In considering this re-appropriation, Suzanne Guerlac in Thinking in Time: an introduction to Henri Bergson (2006), asks why Bergson has never been considered in relation to Derrida, given that the two philosophers share fundamental concerns about time and writing. Following Derrida’s critique of Husserl in La Voix et le phénomène (1967), it is perhaps the case that many critics categorize Bergson as a phenomenologist. However, I aim to develop the argument that Guerlac instigates and show that Derrida’s critique of Husserl in fact establishes a close proximity with Bergson’s view that Western metaphysics suppresses time as durée. I will show how both Bergson and Derrida operate with the understanding of a particular rupture in the full presence of the present, an expansion of consciousness as a ‘now’ to include a constant deferral to memory. While this overlap establishes an affinity, I conclude by showing that it simultaneously marks a point of diffraction with regard to how both seek to methodologically embody such a concept of time.

Percepção, Tempo de percepção, Percepção de tempo

by André Barata Nascimento

Conceptualmente, o tempo é independente da sua experiência – é possível dar uma descrição conceptual do tempo sem... more Conceptualmente, o tempo é independente da sua experiência – é possível dar uma descrição conceptual do tempo sem qualquer referência a termos de algum modo relacionados com a consciência subjectiva do tempo. No entanto, já no que respeita a uma fenomenologia da experiência subjectiva do tempo, pode ser posto em evidência que tal experiência do tempo é, ela mesma, e por si mesma, uma experiência temporal. Com efeito, os mesmo termos empregues numa descrição conceptual do tempo estão implicados na descrição fenomenológica de toda a percepção, incluindo a percepção do tempo. Isto vem autorizar uma caracterização da experiência subjectiva do tempo como tempo subjectivo. Finalmente, tomando por base esta natureza temporal da percepção do tempo, é sugerido um esquema explicativo para a nossa experiência quotidiana das assimetrias entre tempo subjectivo e tempo objectivo.

The times of desire, hope and fear - On the temporality of concrete subjectivity in Hegel's Encyclopaedia

by Heikki Ikaheimo

Declerck, G. (2011). Physique de l’espace et phénoménologie de l’espace.

by Gunnar Declerck

Prepublication  version
Complete reference :
Declerck, G. Physique de l’espace et phénoménologie de l’espace. Philosophia Scientae, vol.15, n°3, numéro spécial « L'espace et le temps. Approches en philosophie, mathématiques et physique », éds. C. Bouriau, C. Dufour & P. Lombard, pp.197-219.

Qu’est-ce que l’espace ? Pourquoi y a-t-il de l’espace plutôt que rien ? La physique prétend aujourd’hui répondre à... more Qu’est-ce que l’espace ? Pourquoi y a-t-il de l’espace plutôt que rien ? La physique prétend aujourd’hui répondre à ces questions en se passant de toute référence à l’espace phénoménal du sujet, et donc en totale rupture avec son sens phénoménologique. Nous tiendrons que cette élusion, pour traditionnelle qu’elle soit dans les sciences de la Nature, condamne par avance toute tentative d’explication de l’espace. Et nous montrerons que l’espace que nous construisons comme à notre insu dans la perception est de part en part structuré par un rapport au possible, la spatialisation consistant dans son principe à se rendre intelligible les étants en représentant dans la structuration même du monde les possibilités dont nous disposons.

What is space? Why is there space rather than nothing? Nowadays Physics claims to answer these questions without making any reference to the phenomenal space of the subject, and thus in total rupture with respect to its phenomenological meaning. We defend the idea that this elusion, although traditional in natural sciences, condemns in advance any attempt to explain space. And we will show that perceptual space is structured by a connection to possibilities. Spatialization is an operation affording us to understand the beings by embodying in the structure of the world the opportunities we can rely on.

Heidegger's Jewish Ancetsry

by Marco Motta

This paper attempts a re-reading of Heidegger’s concepts of time and temporality through the lens of the Jewish... more This paper attempts a re-reading of Heidegger’s concepts of time and temporality through the lens of the Jewish tradition. It will be shown that the Jewish conception -or better, with Sacha Stern, lack of a conception- of time and its focus on concrete processes allows a fruitful reinterpretation of Heidegger’s intention within the context of his discussion of time and temporality in Being and Time. On the other hand, a comparison will be drawn with the Greek concept of time in order to underlie the insufficiency of a more traditional reading of Heidegger, which is often carried out using the tools of (the essentially Greek) metaphysical philosophy.

Agency, Determinism, Focal Time Frames, and Narrative in Processive Minimalist Music

by Joshua B. Mailman

To appear as Chapter 6 of the book:
Music and Narrative Since 1900.
Michael Klein and Nicholas Reyland, (Eds.) Indiana University Press. Forthcoming in November 2012.
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=1037_3025_3988&products_id=806644

Review: Chronos and Kairos in Politics: Review of 'The Time of Our Lives'(David Hoy) and 'Time and World Politics'(Kimberly Hutchings)

by Ben O'Loughlin

2010 Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, Vol. 3.

Holy War Redux: The Crusades, Futures of the Past, and Strategic Logic in the "Clash" of Religions

by Geraldine Heng

Theories and Methods Cluster, "Clash of Religions?"
PMLA March 2011

Other Papers:

Leah Marcus, on the European Renaissance

David Theo Goldberg, on the Internet and religion

Saskia Sassen, on globalization and religion

Gauri Viswanathan, on India's religions

Ato Quayson, on African religion in diaspora

Amy Hollywood, on religious studies

Respondent: Julia Luption

The Global Middle Ages

by Geraldine Heng