20121113 Time
Natural & Physical Time Characteristics:
- moves forward, unidirectional unit
- the sun rises then sets
- linearity - every minute is the same as any other
- infinitely divisible
- same for everyone, impersonal, trans-historical, etc.
How do we use time?
Subjective Experience of Time?
- What is it like to live in time?
Shutz - Musical Communication
- Everyone has internal clocks.
- When playing music everyone's clocks are synchronized
- ex)string quartet, good sex, good intellectual conversation
- Time is intertwined when spent with people.
- When synchronized - you're growing old together
- Different intensity when done alone.
- Your focus is connected with someone else's focus.
- Time is conciousness attending to… then… etc.
- Transition of "us-ness" to "we-ness"'
Social construction categories of time.
- Sequence - relationship of before and after.
- Pace - ex)things can move at different speeds
- Duration - how long something lasts
- Rhythm - Week as the only totally social temporal invention -
- cultures have a mission for a day of rest
- marked as different (sacred)
- Cycles - ex)seasons, semesters, etc.
- Periods/Phases - where does the cycle start?
- Time as Territory - ex)Night is a temporal territory for sleep.
- ex)12:00 pm-1:00 pm is lunch time (meal times)
Notes posted by: Natasha Munguia