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Expert versus Lay Calendars — Thoughts from “Objects of Time”

Apr 26, 2013By Tom Grosh IV

A written calendar, then, is not so much as a cognitive tool to assist the reckoning of time, but a cognitive and cultural tool that can either promote social coordination or intersubjective senses of uncanniness, or even both, as inRead more…

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How would you describe your “time consciousness?”

Oct 12, 2012By Tom Grosh IV

While reading Kevin Birth‘s Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality, I wondered if weekends provide an opportunity to tell time differently. There is a danger in viewing the clock as necessary for certain cognitive tasks simply because we use it for those tasks. TheRead more…

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“What, then, is time?”

Oct 11, 2012By Tom Grosh IV

As some of you know, I’ve been enjoying ESN blogger/mentor Kevin Birth‘s provocative Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY: 2012). Augustine of Hippo wrote, “What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know;Read more…

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Oct 11, 2012Tom Grosh IV 4 comments

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