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“Perhaps an easily comprehended way to think about timescapes is to think of an array of temporal features - flowing durational “scapes” - that exist in lived reality, in us, in our cultures and in nature. Each feature, or temporal scape is implicated in all the others but not necessarily of equal importance. Context is the “now” or the “present.” It is the intersecting point of contact between the different timescapes that touch our lives - or those timescapes that we ourselves bring to a context or situation to generate a uniquely experienced timescape. As Christopher Prendergast puts it: “What we call ‘the present’ is a dynamic cluster of temporal traces, of the past it has been and the future it is in the process of becoming”. What we create and experience in “the present” is, in effect, a timescape that is part of a socially constituted temporal whole, part of what is to be alive in a becoming and emergent social world.”
(…) As archeologist Christopher Gosden said: People create time and space through their actions. Time and space, in turn, become part of the structure of habitual action, shaping the nature of reference between actions.”
(…) As archeologist Christopher Gosden said: People create time and space through their actions. Time and space, in turn, become part of the structure of habitual action, shaping the nature of reference between actions.”
— Robert Hassan - Timescapes of the Network Society
