Ghostly pasts and postponed futures
The disorder of time during the corona pandemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7096402 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Siobhan Kattago (0000-0003-0093-4447, University of Tartu, Estonia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1401-1413 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/17506980211054015 |
| OpenAlex | W3211609398 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 12 |
Since the first lockdown in March 2020, time seems to have slowed to a continuous present tense. The Greek language has three words to express different experiences of time: aion, chronos and kairos. If aion is the boundless and limbo-like time of eternity, chronos represents chronological, sequential, and linear time. Kairos, however, signifies the rupture of ordinary time with the opportune moment, epiphany and redemption, revolution, and most broadly, crisis and emergency. This paper argues that the pandemic is impacting how individuals perceive time in two ways: first, as a distortion of time in which individuals are caught between linear time ( chronos) and rupture ( kairos) invoking the state of emergency and second, as an extended present that blurs the passing of chronological time with its seeming eternity ( aion). As a result of the perceived suspension of ordinary time, temporal understandings of the future are postponed, while the past hovers like a ghost over the present
Art · Epiphany · Epistemology · Eternity · Heaven · Kairos · Linguistics · Literature · Temporality · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |