That Strange Attractor We Call Time: An Exploration of the Concept of Time through the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Complexity Theory
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...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-93820839658741458144fa2ea37db3ff2022-12-21T21:30:44ZengUniversity of Western AustraliaLimina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies1833-34192008-06-0114None1926That Strange Attractor We Call Time: An Exploration of the Concept of Time through the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Complexity TheoryMarta Celletti0University of Western AustraliaSince 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.https://www.archive.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/186594/Celletti.pdfpost-structuralist, time, deleuze, guattari, nomad thought |
| spellingShingle | Marta Celletti That Strange Attractor We Call Time: An Exploration of the Concept of Time through the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Complexity Theory Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies post-structuralist, time, deleuze, guattari, nomad thought |
| title | That Strange Attractor We Call Time: An Exploration of the Concept of Time through the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Complexity Theory |
| title_full | That Strange Attractor We Call Time: An Exploration of the Concept of Time through the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Complexity Theory |
| title_fullStr | That Strange Attractor We Call Time: An Exploration of the Concept of Time through the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Complexity Theory |
| title_full_unstemmed | That Strange Attractor We Call Time: An Exploration of the Concept of Time through the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Complexity Theory |
| title_short | That Strange Attractor We Call Time: An Exploration of the Concept of Time through the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Complexity Theory |
| title_sort | that strange attractor we call time an exploration of the concept of time through the thought of gilles deleuze and complexity theory |
| topic | post-structuralist, time, deleuze, guattari, nomad thought |
| url | https://www.archive.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/186594/Celletti.pdf |
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