{"product_id":"time-in-variance-9789004470163","title":"Time in Variance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210828800343,"sku":"9789004470163","price":95.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/time-in-variance-9789004470163","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}