Time in Variance

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

 Paul A. Harris, Arkadiusz Misztal, and Jo Alyson Parker

part 1: Variations on J. T. Fraser’s Hierarchical Theory of Time

1 President’s Address: Time in Variance

 Raji C. Steineck

2 Out of Plato’s Cave

 Steve Ostovich

3 From the Biotemporal to the Ecotemporal in Atilio Caballero’s La última playa

 Lucia Cash Beare

4 Founder’s Lecture: Is Time Out of Joint? Or at a New Threshold? Reflections on the Temporality of Climate Change

 David Wood

5 Slow Time: The Suspension of a Tension

 Paul A. Harris

part 2: Variant Narratives

6 Temporal Otherness and the “Gifted Child” in Fiction

 Adam Barrows

7 The Seductive Quality of Variable Time in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

 Sue Scheibler

8 In the Forest of Realities: Impossible Worlds in Film and Television Narratives

 Sonia Front

9 “Out of Repetition Comes Variation”: Varying Timelines, Invariant Time, and Dolores’s Glitch in Westworld

 Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert

10 Time in Variance and Time’s Invariance in Richard McGuire’s Here

 Arkadiusz Misztal

part 3: Measuring Time’s Variance

11 Variance in Time Morphologies in Production and Consumption of Incense in Medieval Japan

 Vroni Ammann

12 Understanding Computation Time: A Critical Discussion of Time as a Computational Performance Metric

 David Harris-Birtill and Rose Harris-Birtill

13 Variations of Narrative Temporalities in John Farrow’s 1948 Film The Big Clock

 Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard

14 Transcending Temporal Variance: Time-Specificity, Long Distance Performance and the Intersubjective Site

 Emily DiCarlo

15 Temporal Experience in George Benjamin’s Sudden Time

 Martin Scheuregger

Index