Rituals both mourn what is lost and exhort what is to come. They usher us, writes the poet CA Conrad, into a moment “where all of time is suddenly present.” Ceremonies of What Ought To Be could help us embed kinship time in our social structures and institutions. They could bring past and future into alignment with our calamitous present in a festi... See more

Rituals can be defined as temporal technologies for housing oneself. They turn being in the world into being at home. Rituals are in time as things are in space. They stabilize life by structuring time. They give us festive spaces, so to speak, spaces we can enter in celebration. As temporal structures, rituals arrest time. Temporal spaces we ... See more