Time as Practice
An 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.
Everything I write here is part of a longer practice of noticing how time moves — and how we move with it.
Getting started with Time as Practice
The World as Computation
Exploring computation as a force that shapes contemporary experience.
For readers interested in technology, heterochronic tempos, and how modern infrastructures rewrite time.
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.
Rejuvenation & Disorientation
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.
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Chronology
A running list of posts
Juvenescence - Robert Pogue Harrison
An essay on the experience of heterochronic time in our turbulent age. Harrison offers his characteristically unique take on heterchronic time and humanity’s ability to remain youthful while we age.
The Return of Fate
The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.
New Gods for a New Time
The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?
Bataille, Religion, Experience
What is to become of religion in our time? In this essay, I descend into Bataille’s speculations on the contingent birth of consciousness out of the ‘water in water’ of pure experience.
Ressentiment Unbound
Nietzsche treated ressentiment as a consolation for a desire for vengeance that is too weak to act. But what happens when it finds itself in power? In this essay, I explore the consequences of empowered ressentiment on the woke left.
Reading the Iliad: Mênis and the Moral Compass
Descending into Achilles passive mēnis in the Iliad leads to a better understanding of the birth of our democratic moral compass.
Mark 1:15, Metanoeite
Reclaiming ‘metanoia’ as a word badly in need of rejuvenation.
Reading the Iliad: Wisdom and Violence
The first of an ongoing re-engagement with the Iliad. Here we have an untimely meditation that holds up the mirror of violence to a culture desparately in need of alternatives to vendettas.
The Natural Contract - Michel Serres
Michel Serres at his most political. This 1990 book is a defining work in the modern understanding of the climate crisis. I've written a long essay inspired by the depth and breadth of Serres vision.
The Parasite - Michel Serres
An essay on how to use 'the parasite' as an operational concept that expands our capacity for experience.
Birth of Physics - Michel Serres
Michel Serres makes Lucretius our contemporary. Published just before Le Parasite, Le Naissance de la physique was a key moment in the history of chaos theory and the ability to see order emerging from disorder -- a reversal of the Enlightenment's formula. Serres finds in Lucretius' De rerum natura a pre-Modern text that offers a more relevant way of thinking about order and disorder free of eternal natural laws.