Book Description

Introduction / Paul A. Harris, Arkadiusz Misztal, and Jo Alyson Parker -- President's address : time in variance / Raji C. Steineck -- Out of Plato's cave / Steve Ostovich -- From the biotemporal to the ecotemporal in Atilio Caballero's La última playa / Lucia Cash Beare -- Founder's lecture : is time out of joint? Or at a new threshold? Reflections on the temporality of climate change / David Wood -- Slow time : the suspension of a tension / Paul A. Harris -- Temporal otherness and the "gifted child" in fiction / Adam Barrows -- The seductive quality of variable time in Elder scrolls V : Skyrim / Sue Scheibler -- In the forest of realities : impossible worlds in film and television narratives / Sonia Front -- "Out of repetition comes variation" : varying time-lines, invariant time, and Dolores's glitch in Westworld / Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert -- Time in variance and time's invariance in Richard McGuire's Here / Arkadiusz Misztal -- Variance in time morphologies in production and consumption of incense in medieval Japan / Vroni Ammann -- Understanding computation time : a critical discussion of time as a computational performance metric / David Harris-Birtill and Rose Harris-Birtill -- Variations of narrative temporalities in John Farrow's 1948 film The big clock / Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard -- Transcending temporal variance : time-specificity, long distance performance and the intersubjective site / Emily DiCarlo -- Temporal experience in George Benjamin's Sudden time / Martin Scheuregger.