Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time - Journal #27 September 2011 - e-flux

- “On the elegant analog clock, meanwhile, time swells and recedes, like waves and seasons and life. The hands evoke the rotation of the earth, the movements of celestial objects, the cosmos.”

The concept of "events" in the article "The Body As Mixer" intersects interestingly with ideas of time in complex adaptive systems, particularly when considering the distinction between chronos and kairos.●Chronos refers to linear, sequential time, the kind we measure with clocks and calendars. It's the quantitative aspect of time.●Kairos, on the o... See more

In the past, our timekeeping systems were synchronized with the systems of the earth. The rhythms and seasons of nature help us orient and make sense of when we are. Digital media has warped our subjective sense of time and thrown us into a state of atemporal confusion. Aside from surface-level features like “dark mode,” digital temporality is blin... See more

As a concept, time makes sense. We think we understand it. But in practice, it becomes unclear, and the minutes, hours, and days often blend together. It’s like we don’t have any internal clock or sense of time. We have a clockless mind. We only seem to understand two states: the present (“now”), and some vague version of all future time (“not now”

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