What if this present were the world's last night?: Simultaneity and Interval in the Temporal Museum

Jennifer Walklate

What if this present were the world's last night? Simultaneity and Interval in the Temporal Museum

Jennifer Walklate

Anthropology

University of Leicester

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Abstract

The thing which joins us with, and separates us from, objects and the material world might appear to be space. But our relationship to the physical environment is nowhere near so simple. Our experiences and our interpretations of those experiences have about them a temporal quality. The raw physicality of the material world, when encountered by sentient minds, is not just a landscape, but a timescape: a describable, relativistic context generated by unique phenomenological encounters and the environment in which those encounters occur. Timescapes, spontaneous and fleeting as they are, will form the basis for this paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Transtechnology Research
Subtitle of host publication	O/A Papers
Volume	4
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	Dialogues at the Interlude: Between Body, Artifact and Discourse - Plymouth, United Kingdom Duration: 12 Jul 2013 → 14 Jul 2013

Conference

Conference	Dialogues at the Interlude
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Plymouth
Period	12/07/13 → 14/07/13

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