Holland, Jocelyn (Author)
Kittler, Wolf (Author)
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Volume: 23.2
Issue: 2
Pages: 133-143
Publication date: 2015
Language: English
Edition Details: Lead Article in a Series: Keeping Time
Where is the study of time going? Our project seeks to make a contribution to recent initiatives like Stiegler's phenomenological approach to considering the relationship between technics and time, while complementing other interdisciplinary efforts, such as the collaboration between artist William Kentridge and historian of science Peter Galison that led to both an exhibition in Paris and a joint publication.24 The title of their collaboration, The Refusal of Time, suggests an extreme case scenario for any inquiry into time. Drawing at the end of his essay on quotations from contemporary string theorists, which would seem to point to at least one argument for “giving up” on space and time altogether (however credible this argument may seem to some physicists), Galison speculates whether time is, in fact, “nothing but the crude approximation of an obsolete science.”25 It remains to be seen whether this idea ever makes its way to into the public imaginary or, as with the case of the atomic clock, remains on the periphery of cultural perceptions of time.
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