Marking time and sounding difference: Brubeck, temporality and modernity

Physical Time and Intrinsic Temporality

Physical theories distinguish two notions of time: reversible, homogeneous parameter time (relativity theory and quantum mechanics) and irreversible, directed time (thermodynamics). Both concepts differ fundamentally from what we define implicitly by using the tenses and temporal adverbs in language. The tempora past, present, and future hinge upon one uniquely exposed moment: the now. The now ...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

About time: Temporality in interaction

Ever since the inception of the modern computer, researchers and designers alike have been interested in the effects of system delays on users. The current study was conducted in order to examine the most central issues to the field of temporality in interaction, and presents a consolidation of a selection of publications on the subject. A distinction between two types of interactive systems, d...

Marking time

Next, we discuss the point-based and interval-based versions of time. These were studied in Johan van Benthem’s book The logic of time and in several papers appearing around the same time: Vilain [1982], and Allen [1983], developed an interval algebra; Moszkowski and Manna [1983], as well as Schwartz, Melliar-Smith and Vogt [1983], advocated interval-based reasoning for hardware. The prohibitiv...