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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Replying to @vgr
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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Replying to @KeenDisregard @vgr
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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Not sure of details, but even electric light could be a factor. I'm thinking something along the lines of "organic time" that still affords space for variety but indicates pre- artificial synchronization, using artificial in the sense of man-made temporal attractors"...
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Replying to @KeenDisregard
You're on the right track (and I'm only ahead of you because I've been thinking about this for years). The difference between the before and after varieties of "organic time" (a good term for kairos) is the degree of global entanglement. Organic on village scale vs. global scale.
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Replying to @vgr
Ok and you're after a term for before, as in the many villages sense, yes?
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Replying to @KeenDisregard
No, I'm after a term for roughly 1910 to 1980, after the synchronization was achieved, but before computing killed it
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Replying to @vgr
Oh shit ok I was elsewhere conceptually. Will refer back to your other notes a moment.
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I'll eventually need a term for the village era too, but that's less pressing, since I don't have as much to say about it, and it's not as interesting since it's not very entangled. Globally local temporality might work. Pre-globalized temporality.
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Replying to @vgr
Each of those seem to work, yes. The fractal localist folks might have a word with you there, if pursuing it further in the future.
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