Time Studies

El reloj y el tiempo en la Castilla bajomedieval a través de la literatura

by Víctor Pérez Álvarez

Published in: M. I. Del Val Valdivieso, P. Martínez Sopena (coords.): "Homenaje al Profesor Julio Valdeón", Valladolid, Junta de Castilla y León, Universidad de Valladolid, 2009, pp. 493-502

Time conciusness and time measuring can be traced in literature better than in many administrative documents. In this... more Time conciusness and time measuring can be traced in literature better than in many administrative documents. In this paper the author analizes the implantation of the mechanical clock in the society of the Kingdom of Castile in the XVth century through two well known literary sources.

Every Moment Is a Learning Time”: Conversation with Michel Alhadeff-Jones

by Michel Alhadeff-Jones

Hodeck, M. (2008). “Every Moment Is a Learning Time”: Conversation with Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Teacher Writers for a Public Voice - “Inter–View” Bulletin, 3, n°3-4, 3-7.

In December 2008, Maria Hodeck, editor of the Teachers Writer for a Public Voice “Inter-view Bulletin” (Teachers... more In December 2008, Maria Hodeck, editor of the Teachers Writer for a Public Voice “Inter-view Bulletin” (Teachers College, Columbia University), invited me to have an electronic conversation with her about the new course I am proposing this Spring 2009 on “Time and Learning“.

This text is the the transcript of our conversation. Through autobiographical elements, this conversation introduces several themes such as: time and alienation; the multiplicity of temporalities; time and teaching; informal learning; paces, movements, and the rhythms of learning; time and agency; rhythms and health.

Transformative Learning, Sustainability and the Issue of Time

by Michel Alhadeff-Jones

Alhadeff-Jones, M. (2009, November). Transformative Learning, Sustainability and the Issue of Time. In M. Alhadeff-Jones (Chair), International Perspectives on Transformative Learning and Sustainability. Panel conducted at the 8th Transformative Learning Conference, Bermuda.

This text is a transcript of the communication I made on November 19th 2009 to open the international panel... more This text is a transcript of the communication I made on November 19th 2009 to open the international panel "Perspectives on Transformative Learning and Sustainability", conducted at the 8th Transformative Learning Conference in Bermuda.

This communication suggests that one of the challenges of the promotion of social and environmental sustainability has to do with the fact that – to be embraced – it requires the ability to connect past, present and future. Promoting sustainability challenges the way we relate to time, the way we perceive and interpret the temporality of our lives, as well as the lives of future generations. Considering the specificities of the temporalities associated with the process of globalization, this communication invites one to question the political nature of a reflection on time and the the current assumptions about the temporality of transformative learning.

Langeweile

by Heike Klippel

Klippel, Heike: Langeweile. In: Agora42, Nr. 3, 2010, p. 46-49.

House, Wife, Woman, and Time

by Heike Klippel

Klippel, Heike: House, Wife, Women, and Time. In: KronoScope. Journal for the Study of Time. Vol. 7, Nr. 2, 2007, p. 137-168.

Appointment Time: Disability and Neoliberal Workfare Temporalities

by Karen Soldatic

"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.

Un rendez-vous parmi d’autres. Ce que le jeu sur internet nous apprend du travail contemporain

by Manuel Boutet

Manuel Boutet, 2011. « Un rendez-vous parmi d’autres. Ce que le jeu sur internet nous apprend du travail contemporain ». ethnographiques.org, Numéro 23 - décembre 2011 "Analyser les présences au travail : visibilités et invisibilités" [en ligne].
(http://www.ethnographiques.org/2011/ Boutet - consulté le 27.12.2011)

Abstract

What can we learn about contemporary work and its collective forms of sociability from the rise of... more Abstract

What can we learn about contemporary work and its collective forms of sociability from the rise of ‘rendez-vous' games on Internet ? Games can be useful tools for analyzing work on the condition that our understanding of the encounters between of these two types of activity is not limited to a common-sense interpretation in which games represent at worst a simple form of entertainment, at best, training for something more serious. On the basis of interviews with players of an online game, we show that forms of play vary with the work activity with which they are associated, and especially, on the presence or absencce of multi-activity, where interactions at a distance and heterogeneous solicitations occupy an important place. Examing gaming pratice during breaks enables us to see how employees manage to maintain the consistency of their activities in such professional contexts, and to understand the developing of new forms of sociability based mainly on shared life/work rhythms.

Résumé

Que peut nous apprendre l'essor des « jeux de rendez-vous » sur le travail contemporain et les collectifs qui s'y inventent ? Si le jeu peut constituer un bon analyseur du travail, c'est que l'intrication de ces deux activités ne se résume pas aux deux interprétations courantes, qui voient dans le jeu un divertissement ou un entraînement. En partant d'entretiens menés avec des joueurs d'un jeu en ligne sur internet, on montre que la forme prise par la pratique de jeu varie selon l'activité de travail où elle s'insère, en particulier selon la présence ou non d'une situation de multi-activité, où se multiplient les communications à distance et les sollicitations hétérogènes dans le cours de l'activité. Le jeu donne ainsi à voir le travail déployé pour maintenir une cohérence de l'activité dans les contextes professionnels, plus nombreux aujourd'hui, où les temps sont individualisés, les arrangements techniques, laissés à la responsabilité du travailleur, et les sollicitations hétérogènes. On comprend aussi que s'y développent des nouvelles formes de sociabilités essentiellement basées sur le partage de rythmes.

Evolutionary Aesthetics: The Evolution of Complex Systems, the Appreciation of Beauty, and the Creation of Art and Literature

by Troy Camplin

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.

The Psychological Time in Some Upanishads. In: Darshana International vol. XXV , Moradabad, India, 1985.

by Stefania Dimitrova

Наташа ДРУБЕК-МАЙЕР Кино, часы и дождь. К предыстории образов-времени Делёзa: Хуциев, Данелия, Хитилова, Немец, Влачил

by Natascha Drubek

КИНОВЕДЧЕСКИЕ ЗАПИСКИ 98 (2011)
Kinovedcheskie zapiski 98 (2011)
Translated by Anna Friesen

The cinema, the clock and the rain. Towards the pre-history of Deleuze’s time-images

"The author... more The cinema, the clock and the rain. Towards the pre-history of Deleuze’s time-images

"The author extends the philosophical apparatus of Gilles Deleuze to the cinema of Eastern Europe. These films of the late 1950s-1970s were only touched upon in his books «Cinema», although sometimes it seems they were created with the sole purpose of constructing and reflecting time in cinema. The author examines l’image-temps, time-images of Deleuze that exist outside of cinema and sets forward new concepts of time and depiction of time that were not accounted for in the philosophy of time and cinema created by Bergson and Deleuze. Concepts of time that were formulated after the Second World War are also taken into account. Lastly, examples from the Eastern European cinema serve as the testing ground for Deleuze’s theory."

On the experiential link between spatial and temporal language

by Teenie Matlock

Brother can you spell the time?

by Tara Brabazon

Times Higher Education, June 6, 2008

How children use time

by Kerth O'Brien

Learning to Challenge Time in Adult Education: A Critical and Complex Perspective

by Michel Alhadeff-Jones

Alhadeff-Jones, M. (2010). Learning to Challenge Time in Adult Education: A Critical and Complex Perspective. In B. Merrill (ed.) Proceedings of the 40th Annual Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults (SCUTREA).

Considering the political nature of conflicting experiences of time, promoting a complex understanding of time becomes... more Considering the political nature of conflicting experiences of time, promoting a complex understanding of time becomes critical. This paper claims that learning to discriminate, evaluate, interpret, argue, judge, and challenge experienced temporalities and rhythms should be at the core of original forms of critical theory and practice in adult education.

Stability and Change in Perception: Spatial Organization in Temporal Context

by Sergei Gepshtein

Co-authored with M. Kubovy, published in Experimental Brain Research, 2004

We presented observers with two successive multistable stimuli and found that the higher the probability of the... more We presented observers with two successive multistable stimuli and found that the higher the probability of the favored organization in the first stimulus the lower the probability of the same organization in the second. This pattern of negative contingency is orientation-tuned and occurs no matter whether the favored organization had or had not been experienced in the first stimulus. The effect of negative contingency combines multiplicatively with another effect that increases the likelihood of the just-perceived organization. Both effects can be explained without assuming either adaptation or hysteresis in perceptual organization. Our data suggest that the observed effects reveal lasting states of the visual system rather than changes in the system caused by stimulation.

Le convertisseur de temps. Une réactualisation de l'étayage.

by Dominique Scarfone

Journées internationales Jean-Laplanche, Sorrento, Avril 2001.

Binding Time in Digital Civilisations: Re-evaluating Innis after New Media

by Chris Chesher

Global Media Journal Australian Edition, 2009

The spectacular history of the computer’s power for calculation and command over distance has tended to divert... more The spectacular history of the computer’s power for calculation and command over distance has tended to divert attention from its very mixed record in mediating time. Gradual refinements in digital storage technologies have not overcome the tendency for digital artefacts to degrade, corrupt and disappear. The most distinctive feature of computer media though, is the diversification of spatiotemporal configurations that they have come to mediate.

This article returns to the seminal work of mid-20th century communications theorist Harold Innis, for an ethical framework that deals with this space/time imbalance. Just before computers were developed, he devised a method for analysing civilisations according to how well balanced the dominant media of an era were in relating to time and space. Space-binding media (such as papyrus or electronic communication), facilitate command and control over territory and support empire building. Time-binding media (such as stone and spoken communication within social hierarchies), operate to maintain cultural continuity and tend towards more stately and priestly structures. Innis’s media ethics is based on societies finding a balance between these functions.

The computer has become the dominant media platform of the current era. From the first design, command and memory were on the same circuit. However, as Innis feared, their implementation was always out of balance, as command functions were cheaper and more effective than memory or storage. More recently, it can be argued that more sophisticated time-binding features are better supporting demotic uses of sound, image and text, managed in archives and cultural networks. This paper explores the value and limitations of Innis’ theories for an understanding of the current epoch of internet media.

Le temps dans oeuvres de Jorge Luis Borges, Edouard Glissant et Saint-John Perse

by Valérie Loichot