{"product_id":"times-urgency-9789004408234","title":"Time's Urgency","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Study of Time XVI: Time’s Urgency celebrates the 50th anniversary of the International Society for the Study of Time. It includes a keynote speech by renowned physicist Julian Barbour, a dialogue between British author David Mitchell, Katie Paterson and ISST’s previous president Paul Harris. The volume is divided into dialogues and papers that directly address the issue of urgency and time scales from various disciplines.     This book offers a unique perspective on the contemporary status of the interdisciplinary study of time. It will open new paths of inquiry for different approaches to the important issues of narrative structure and urgency. These are themes that are becoming increasingly relevant during our times.     Contributors are Julian Barbour, Dennis Costa, Kerstin Cuhls, Ileana da Silva, Margaret K. Devinney, Sonia Front, Peter A. Hancock, Paul Harris, Rose Harris-Birtill, David Mitchell, Carlos Montemayor, Jo Alyson Parker, Katie Paterson, Walter Schweidler, Raji C. Steineck, Daniela Tan, Frederick Turner, Thomas P. Weissert, Marc Wolterbeek, and Barry Wood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Notes on Contributors  Introduction   Carlos Montemayor    Introductory Essays  1 A New Theory of Time’s Arrows   Julian Barbour    2 ‘Looking Down Time’s Telescope at Myself’: Reincarnation and Global Futures in David Mitchell’s Fictional Worlds (Winner of the 2016 New Scholar’s Prize)   Rose Harris-Birtill    part 1: Dialogues  3 Archivists of the Future   Paul Harris, Katie Paterson and David Mitchell    4 Presidential Address: Should We Give Up “Time”?   Raji C. Steineck    5 Time as an Open Concept: A Response to Raji Steineck   Carlos Montemayor    6 Zero-Time Theory   Peter A. Hancock    7 Deconstructing the Zero Time Theory   Frederick Turner    8 Time’s up: Clarifying Misunderstandings of Zero-Time Theory   Peter A. Hancock    part 2: Urgency and Time Scales    9 Eternal Recursion, the Emergence of Metaconsciousness, and the Imperative for Closure   Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert    10 Petrotemporality at Siccar Point: James Hutton’s Deep Time Narrative   Barry Wood    11 Time’s Urgency Ritualized: The Centrality and Authority of Mayan Calendars   Margaret K. Devinney    12 Telling Time: Literary Rituals and Trauma   Daniela Tan    13 Sequence and Duration in Graphic Novels   Ileana da Silva and Marc Wolterbeek    14 “There’s More Than One of Everything”: Time Complexity in Fringe   Sonia Front    15 Foresight and Urgency: The Discrepancy between Long-Term Thinking and Short-Term Decision-Making   Kerstin Cuhls    16 “More Than Watchmen”: Dante on Urgency in Ritual   Dennis Costa    17 Time’s Redeeming Urgency   Walter Schweidler    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210780402007,"sku":"9789004408234","price":104.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/times-urgency-9789004408234","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}