Trying to think of a name X for the 'before' state of atemporality. X = global consensus clock-time culture <1980 atemporality = 1980s-2015s increasing anomic uncertainty Multitemporality = post-great-weirding time culture, where everybody gets a subjective time zone
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"temporal brutalism"?
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This gets at exactly the sense of it, though the phrase is a little awkward
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Contemporality :D
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Very cute, but not quite right. Hmm... cotemporality might work though. It is the coordinated experience of time rather than a present-bias that defines that condition. Including coordinated experience of historical memory and the future

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You're getting at something that makes me curious about a good term as well. Would you take it back to pre-radio?
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I'm not sure a past global consensus as opposed to a current lack of it is really an applicable distinction. Different clock times in different towns were an issue even at the advent of passenger rail.
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In my time studies I just say unitary time.
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That’s a decent term. Any publications I can cite if I use that?
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from a core archetypal perspective, "Chronos" = iron law of time (the god that literally eats his children, & time in a figurative sense does too) is very much The Titan (ha!)/"Crucible" severe test, even punishment ("time's up", "deadline", "end of the rope/tether/line")
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Kairos on the other hand is 100% The (Little) Trickster/ "Special Child" asymmetry (v small vs. v large, luck vs. enormity of fate...). Luck of timing etc. is the sign of the "divine/golden" child So on my map at least you are grinding on the boundary betw those 2 archetypes
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