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.
Most Popular, Most Important
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.
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.
Mark 1:15, Metanoeite
Reclaiming ‘metanoia’ as a word badly in need of rejuvenation.
Rejuvenation
Have we lost the power of rejuvenation?
Reading Zarathustra: The Three Metamorphoses
The three metamorphoses Zarathustra describes in his first speech after the prologue moves us beyond any knee-jerk philosophical and religious musings of ‘being and becoming’. The vision presented here is far more sophisticated.
Reading Zarathustra: The Speeches of Zarathustra
The second installment of my series of Reading Zarathustra. This focuses on the problem of teaching, discipleship, truth telling, and companionship in ‘The Speeches of Zarathustra’ from Book I.
Reading Zarathustra: Prologue
The first in a commentary series on Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This post covers Zarathustra’s Prologue.
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.
Time Out of Joint
How do we compose time?