A Great Circle With No Rim

In this course we will look at the role individualised conceptions of time play in the worlds we inhabit and the worlds we build. Tracing how algorithmic time has been incorporated into contemporary urban organisation, we will examine how to measure and inhabit other temporal landscapes, and how this could influence the way we understand power, urgency, past, and future.

We will look at examples of alternative temporalities in science fiction literature, cinema, art, and environmental humanities to establish how an understanding of time is related to faith, a sense of purpose, and the reality of interventions that are considered possible, necessary, or urgent.