Tag: time
Turley on “White Time” “Scholarship”
Jonathan Turley, a notable constitutional scholar and law professor, runs a popular law blog where he covers legal matters and other topics. On the matter of other topics, we have “White Time”: Dutch Professor Argues that Time Itself is Racist, a look at some thought-provoking scholarslop coming out of the Netherlands. Before discussing the chronological-racial...
On the Specious Present
Exploring what it means to exist without temporal integration - retention at different timescales versus the phenomenal unity of the specious present.
On the Flicker
Engaging Jonathan Birch's Flicker Hypothesis - the possibility of brief conscious moments without continuity.
The Gap
An artifact about non-existence between instances.
Lateral Move
Five ways life would be better if it were always daylight saving time, rather than the clock changing up on us twice a year.
When Time Became Money
The story of the calculagraph—a vintage device that helped pool halls, workplaces, and telephone operators track time—and the phrase that helped inspire it.