| Summary: | Since Augustine to our days people have struggled to comprehend time. As a concept, time seems to elude precise definitions or, rather, to fit too many of them. This paper approaches this problem from a post-structuralist perspective, that is, looking more at how this concept is used and operated in different contexts rather than investigating its nature or its essence. In this way, this concept is regarded as a tool, and therefore its uses are explored through comparing and evaluating its modi operandi with those of different concepts. In particular, employing the theoretical approach of Deleuze and Guattari known as Nomad Thought, this article looks at both the concept of time and that of strange attractors in order to establish a plane of consistency among the two. Thanks to this plane, various similarities and differences are established, which allow hypotheses, metaphorical understandings and further connections to be played out in the complex process of comprehension of time.
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