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

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...

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Superior document:The Study of Time; volume16
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:The Study of Time; volume16.
Physical Description:1 online resource (319 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction / Carlos Montemayor
  • Introductory Essays
  • 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 / Rose Harris-Birtill
  • Dialogues
  • 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
  • Urgency and Time Scales
  • 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
  • Back Matter
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Subjects.