Time as Practice

We are living through an historic threshold. For decades it unfolded gradually; since the pandemic, its acceleration has become impossible to ignore. Time feels compressed, elastic, out of joint.

This threshold marks a new phase of the Enlightenment’s aspirations. The speed and spread of our computational power are pulling many of the concepts that once structured Western experience across it—consciousness, intelligence, knowledge, politics, culture, progress. As computation reaches new tempos, these ideas are no longer stable. They are being reformatted.

Time as Practice is my inquiry into how modern life bends, fractures, and composes time—and how we learn to move through those shifting currents with clarity, curiosity, and renewed possibility.

Here you’ll find experiments in thinking: meditations on science and myth, technology and democracy, ancient rhythms and computational speeds.

Nothing here aims at final answers. Everything is part of a longer practice of noticing how time moves—and learning how to move with it.

Getting Started with Time as Practice

The World as Computation

How has computation become a force that shapes contemporary experience.

For readers interested in technology, heterochronic tempos, and how modern infrastructures rewrite time.

Read Computation
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Rejuvenation & Orientation

How to stay alive and adaptive in a world moving faster than our inherited frameworks.

For readers interested in fragility, democracy, and the tempos of renewal.

Read Rejuvenation
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Ancient Rhythms, Modern Time

What ancient philosophy and the Enlightenment reveal about our own moment.

For readers curious about the problem of modernity’s shifting temporal scales.

Read Rhythms

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