Time and temporality in Literature and other Arts - 2

1 Março 2018, 10:00 • Ângela Fernandes

We broadened the arena and looked at how in different disciplines (psychology, neuroscience, sociology, anthropology, physics and [analytical] philosophy) time is currently being studied. We arrived at the conclusion that ‘time’ is not a unified object of discourse, and that perhaps the most productive way of looking at it is as a culturally situated construction. From this perspective alternative conceptions and experiential templates of time, perhaps leaving conventions behind, could be, and perhaps already have been, fleshed out as well. Rather than to look exclusively at contemporary art, we therefore also decided to look at the arts in other periods, homing in especially on the modernist period, as it coincided with a phase in cultural history that is often said to have witnessed a modern ‘time crisis’ akin to our present-day one.