Time and the Mobile Body
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4356077 |
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| Authors | David Burrows (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 183-193 |
| Publication date | 1999-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Time & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961463x99008001009 |
| OpenAlex | W2129236475 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
One standard model for time is the `timeline'. According to this model, experience is stored and the future projected as a linear narrative of continuities and successions. I will argue that animal mobility is a plausible source for the linear construction of time. Time is linear, when it is linear, because the organism is focussed in a point, at here and now, and, as a result of its linear mobility, projects that point in the form of a line. Another model, here called the `timespread', ignores sequence and assimilates experience to categories. Once actualized, the timespread model amounts to `knowledge'. Both models, timeline and timespread, are realized from the perspective of an individual organism restricted to a particular, if mobile, location, and accumulating its now-experiences in ways that reflect its self-interest
Biology · Epistemology · Linear model · Log-linear model · Narrative · Organism · Perspective (graphical · Point (geometry · Sociology · Statistics · Timeline · Computer Science · Mathematics · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Artificial Intelligence · Genetics
| Highly cited | No |
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