Critical Conversations: A Measure of Time in a COVID World

“Time is someone”. And so Merleau-Ponty invites us to discover how our experience and measure of time is always connected to our consciousness of self and our relationships with others. Between ruminations on the phenomenology of time and COVID bound psychological research, to mapping how time features in social life and their implications on various communities, this conversation between Dr Chin Chuan Fei and Associate Professor Tracey Skelton invites us to explore unexpected ways to understand or measure how time passes, that may signal towards a new order of social relations in the years to come.

CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS
Conventional Western-centric conceptions of narration and time tend towards the linear: personal lifestyles conform to social schedules, the notion of history relegated to key players, stories unfolding across a traditional arc of climax and conclusion. Across philosophy, art, films and historicity, Critical Conversations 2021 is an inquiry that lingers on the questions: who and what frames time? And how do we understand alternate conceptions of time? Here, the politics, contexts and anxieties that arise from grasping at time find space in discourse, and is where lesser-known narratives and ordinary people are given agency to make sense of time.

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“A very empathetic analysis of time that helped me understand that we all experience time differently according to our circumstances”

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