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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume of essays explores how the notion of time varies across disciplines by examining variance as a defining feature of temporalities in cultural, creative, and scholarly contexts. Featuring a President’s Address by philosopher David Wood, it begins with critical reassessments of J.T. Fraser’s hierarchical theory of time through the lens of Anthropocene studies, philosophy, ecological theory, and ecological literature; proceeds to variant narratives in fiction, video games, film, and graphic novels; and concludes by measuring time’s variance with tools as different as incense clocks and computers, and by marking variance in music, film, and performance art.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Paul A. Harris, Arkadiusz Misztal, and Jo Alyson Parker part 1: Variations on J. T. Fraser’s Hierarchical Theory of Time 1 President’s Address: Time in Variance Raji C. Steineck 2 Out of Plato’s Cave Steve Ostovich 3 From the Biotemporal to the Ecotemporal in Atilio Caballero’s La última playa Lucia Cash Beare 4 Founder’s Lecture: Is Time Out of Joint? Or at a New Threshold? Reflections on the Temporality of Climate Change David Wood 5 Slow Time: The Suspension of a Tension Paul A. Harris part 2: Variant Narratives 6 Temporal Otherness and the “Gifted Child” in Fiction Adam Barrows 7 The Seductive Quality of Variable Time in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Sue Scheibler 8 In the Forest of Realities: Impossible Worlds in Film and Television Narratives Sonia Front 9 “Out of Repetition Comes Variation”: Varying Timelines, Invariant Time, and Dolores’s Glitch in Westworld Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert 10 Time in Variance and Time’s Invariance in Richard McGuire’s Here Arkadiusz Misztal part 3: Measuring Time’s Variance 11 Variance in Time Morphologies in Production and Consumption of Incense in Medieval Japan Vroni Ammann 12 Understanding Computation Time: A Critical Discussion of Time as a Computational Performance Metric David Harris-Birtill and Rose Harris-Birtill 13 Variations of Narrative Temporalities in John Farrow’s 1948 Film The Big Clock Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard 14 Transcending Temporal Variance: Time-Specificity, Long Distance Performance and the Intersubjective Site Emily DiCarlo 15 Temporal Experience in George Benjamin’s Sudden Time Martin Scheuregger Index
