Future Matters
Biographical note
Barbara Adam (PhD) is Professor of Sociology and Cardiff University. She has published extensively, e.g. ‘Time’ (Polity, 2004). Since 2003 she holds an ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council, UK) Professorial Fellowship to research the social future, which involves study of how we create and know the future, on the one hand, and how we take responsibility for it, on the other.
Chris Groves (PhD Philosophy, University of Warwick, 2000) is Research Associate, ESRC Professorial Fellowship In Pursuit of the Future, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
Chris Groves (PhD Philosophy, University of Warwick, 2000) is Research Associate, ESRC Professorial Fellowship In Pursuit of the Future, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
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Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time offers an innovative philosophical account of the most fundamental kinds of time representation. Drawing on biological clocks, it explains how representations of duration and simultaneity relate to the consciously ...
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Explaining and comparing the rise and effects of the 'empires' of clock time and 'network time', Empires of Speed argues with power and clarity that our network society is hurtling fast through a volatile present into an increasingly precarious future.
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This study deals with time and with music, and the link between the two is the suggestion that music is a modeling of the way we construct time. Time—the now, duration, succession and order of succession; the past, the future—is seen as a resource for managing systemic disequilibrium and as the ...
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This work represents a guided tour to the integrated study of time. Through twenty-two connected essays, selected from the author's extensive writings, Time and Time Again advances new insights into our understanding of the nature of time seen through the sciences and the humanities.
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