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.
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.