Time's urgency / edited by Carlos Montemayor, Robert Daniel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The study of time ; volume 16 | Study of time ; 16.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xiii, 305 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789004408234
  • 9004408231
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Time's urgency.
Contents:
A new theory of time's arrows / Julian Barbour -- 'Looking down time's telescope at myself' : reincarnation and global futures in David Mitchell's fictional worlds (winner of the 2016 New Scholar's Prize) / Rose Harris-Birtill -- Archivists of the future / Paul Harris, Katie Paterson and David Mitchell -- Presidential address : should we give up "time"? / Raji C. Steineck -- Time as an open concept : a response to Raji Steineck / Carlos Montemayor -- Zero-time theory / Peter A. Hancock -- Deconstructing the zero time theory / Frederick Turner -- Time's up : clarifying misunderstandings of zero-time theory / Peter A. Hancock -- Eternal recursion, the emergence of metaconsciousness, and the imperative for closure / Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert -- Petrotemporality at Siccar Point : James Hutton's deep time narrative / Barry Wood -- Time's urgency ritualized : the centrality and authority of Mayan calendars / Margaret K. Devinney -- Telling time : literary rituals and trauma / Daniela Tan -- Sequence and duration in graphic novels / Ileana da Silva and Marc Wolterbeek -- "There's more than one of everything" : time complexity in fringe / Sonia Front -- Foresight and urgency : the discrepancy between long-term thinking and short-term decision-making / Kerstin Cuhls -- "More than watchmen" : Dante on urgency in ritual / Dennis Costa -- Time's redeeming urgency / Walter Schweidler.
Summary: "The Study of Time XVI: Time's Urgency celebrates the 50th anniversary of the International Society for the Study of Time. It includes a keynote speech by renowned physicist Julian Barbour, a dialogue between British author David Mitchell, Katie Paterson and ISST's previous president Paul Harris. The volume is divided into dialogues and papers that directly address the issue of urgency and time scales from various disciplines. This book offers a unique perspective on the contemporary status of the interdisciplinary study of time. It will open new paths of inquiry for different approaches to the important issues of narrative structure and urgency. These are themes that are becoming increasingly relevant during our times"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A new theory of time's arrows / Julian Barbour -- 'Looking down time's telescope at myself' : reincarnation and global futures in David Mitchell's fictional worlds (winner of the 2016 New Scholar's Prize) / Rose Harris-Birtill -- Archivists of the future / Paul Harris, Katie Paterson and David Mitchell -- Presidential address : should we give up "time"? / Raji C. Steineck -- Time as an open concept : a response to Raji Steineck / Carlos Montemayor -- Zero-time theory / Peter A. Hancock -- Deconstructing the zero time theory / Frederick Turner -- Time's up : clarifying misunderstandings of zero-time theory / Peter A. Hancock -- Eternal recursion, the emergence of metaconsciousness, and the imperative for closure / Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert -- Petrotemporality at Siccar Point : James Hutton's deep time narrative / Barry Wood -- Time's urgency ritualized : the centrality and authority of Mayan calendars / Margaret K. Devinney -- Telling time : literary rituals and trauma / Daniela Tan -- Sequence and duration in graphic novels / Ileana da Silva and Marc Wolterbeek -- "There's more than one of everything" : time complexity in fringe / Sonia Front -- Foresight and urgency : the discrepancy between long-term thinking and short-term decision-making / Kerstin Cuhls -- "More than watchmen" : Dante on urgency in ritual / Dennis Costa -- Time's redeeming urgency / Walter Schweidler.

"The Study of Time XVI: Time's Urgency celebrates the 50th anniversary of the International Society for the Study of Time. It includes a keynote speech by renowned physicist Julian Barbour, a dialogue between British author David Mitchell, Katie Paterson and ISST's previous president Paul Harris. The volume is divided into dialogues and papers that directly address the issue of urgency and time scales from various disciplines. This book offers a unique perspective on the contemporary status of the interdisciplinary study of time. It will open new paths of inquiry for different approaches to the important issues of narrative structure and urgency. These are themes that are becoming increasingly relevant during our times"-- Provided by publisher.

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