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).

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionCarlos MontemayorIntroductory Essays1 A New Theory of Time’s ArrowsJulian Barbour2 ‘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-Birtillpart 1: Dialogues3 Archivists of the FuturePaul Harris, Katie Paterson and David Mitchell4 Presidential Address: Should We Give Up “Time”?Raji C. Steineck5 Time as an Open Concept: A Response to Raji SteineckCarlos Montemayor6 Zero-Time TheoryPeter A. Hancock7 Deconstructing the Zero Time TheoryFrederick Turner8 Time’s up: Clarifying Misunderstandings of Zero-Time TheoryPeter A. Hancockpart 2: Urgency and Time Scales9 Eternal Recursion, the Emergence of Metaconsciousness, and the Imperative for ClosureJo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert10 Petrotemporality at Siccar Point: James Hutton’s Deep Time NarrativeBarry Wood11 Time’s Urgency Ritualized: The Centrality and Authority of Mayan CalendarsMargaret K. Devinney12 Telling Time: Literary Rituals and TraumaDaniela Tan13 Sequence and Duration in Graphic NovelsIleana da Silva and Marc Wolterbeek14 “There’s More Than One of Everything”: Time Complexity in FringeSonia Front15 Foresight and Urgency: The Discrepancy between Long-Term Thinking and Short-Term Decision-MakingKerstin Cuhls16 “More Than Watchmen”: Dante on Urgency in RitualDennis Costa17 Time’s Redeeming UrgencyWalter SchweidlerIndex