Time's Urgency

Carlos Montemayor, Ph.D. (2009) Rutgers University, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, USA. His research focuses on philosophy of mind and cognitive science. He is the author of Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time (Brill, 2013), co-author (with Harry H. Haladjian) of Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention (MIT Press, 2015) and co-author (with Abrol Fairweather) of Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention: A Theory of Epistemic Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Robert R. Daniel Jr., Ph.D. (1992) Vanderbilt University, is Assistant Professor at Saint Joseph’s University, where he served as Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. Daniel is the author of the book The Poetry of Villon and Baudelaire: Two Worlds, One Human Condition (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1997).

Acknowledgments

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