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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Candidates so far, none of which is entirely satisfactory
Monotemporality
Unitemporality
Canonicity
Peak Clock
Clocksensus (global consensus based on clocks)
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Connotations I want to get at: global consensus, chronos > kairos (ie objective measured time over subjective sense of time, externalized), maximal synchronization/coherence.
Synchronicity kinda gets at it, but is too strong. That's synchronization to the point of serendipity.
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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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This gets at exactly the sense of it, though the phrase is a little awkward
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synchrony
(...) simultaneous action, development, or occurrence. The state of operating or developing according to the same time scale as something else. "some individuals do not remain in synchrony with the twenty-four-hour day" (...)
maybe
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No, this gets at some dynamics that are not quite right, and I'm not sure where to put. It's sort of the opposite of atemporality, a kind of utopian harmony between multitemporality and monotemporality
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That’s a decent term. Any publications I can cite if I use that?
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Monotemporal gets my vote for its suggestivity of both a single timeline, and also of monotonic units of time to be filled.
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Monochromomic or unitemporal. Or is it ok to mix Greek and Latin roots now?






