Time is kind of linear and structured, and how can we make it more fluid or? Yeah, something along those lines. There's this sort of idea that, and there's a lot of a lot about this sort of sociology and phenomenology of time. I think in short, the argument is that the mechanism by which we implement things...is the same mechanism by which they implement time. We ourselves are only ever zigzagging between different foci when we move through our world. That zigzag is essentially what structures the phenomenon of time. If we change the zigzag, if we change the reading of the world, we can change the way time works out for us
In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with Sascha Engel about the themes of his book, Breaking the Alphabet and the tyranny of the written word.
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