A theory of temporal telepresence

Reconsidering the digital time collapse

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4356221
AutoresCarl Öhman (0000-0002-8887-5324, University of Oxford, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen29
Número4
Páginas1061-1081
Fecha de publicación2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x20940471
OpenAlexW3044042066
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas45

This article focuses on the concept of 'time collapse' commonly used within scholarship on digital memory. Despite its intuitive appeal, I claim that the notion of a collapsed time leaves considerable room for conceptual ambiguity, which in turn hampers a deeper ethical analysis of the topic. In view of this ambiguity, the present article sets out to provide analytical rigor to, and thus unpack the ethical dimensions of, the notion of time collapse. Pursuing this goal, I introduce the concept of temporal friction, denoting informational resistance that makes moments of time perceivable as separate for an embodied epistemic agent. I argue that the concept of temporal friction offers a more flexible and precise interpretation of collapsed time, and draw on two examples - search warrants and the so-called digital remains - to illustrate its ethical significance

Ambiguity · Appeal · Cognitive science · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Political science · Reflective equilibrium · Resistance (ecology · Scholarship · Sociology · Temporality · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Digital Media and Philosophy · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Psychology