Temporics month at Perspectiva
Time isn't what it used to be ... what's next?
This October we’re launching the first of our monthly themed event series at Perspectiva. This month’s inquiry centers around the question ‘Time isn’t what it used to be… what’s next?’ We invite you into exercising your temporal agility and sensitivity as we play with time through Temporics, as we call practices involving this most elusive of phenomena.
Our series are designed as ongoing community explorations, aiming to bring depth to some of Perspectiva’s foundational premises. The sessions have a coherent throughline, but each week’s event can be attended independently. The emphasis is on sharing and interaction, drawing upon everyone’s energy and intelligence in the field.
The events will be free this month (sign up buttons below) to give everyone an opportunity to get a sense of our community offering. Each session will last approximately 100 minutes and will include 30-40 min solo talk or conversation, 20-30 of practice, and a final period of sharing and Q&A.
In October, we start with time. What was once experienced as a background seems to rapidly foreground itself into the cultural consciousness. Our experience of time is increasingly shaped by a feeling of acceleration, driven by an economic system converging with exponential technology. Or we experience it as a scarce resource – ‘running out’ – in relation to addressing issues like climate change. If time isn’t what it used to be, what comes next, and how can we participate in finding new expressions of time and space?
October 9: ‘The Age of Irruption’ with Jeremy Johnson
4pm UK / 5pm CEST / 11am EST
We kick off with the Integral Gebser scholar Jeremy Johnson. Gebser, who coined the term Temporics describes the difference in humanity’s experience of time in various structures of consciousness that have emerged throughout history.
Gebser argued that our current structure of consciousness and view of time does not fully allow time’s essential nature. As an alive force, time is ‘breaking forth’ out of the narrow confines of our current temporal frameworks, causing time’s ‘irruption’. What are the faces of irruption, and where are we possibly headed as a collective?
Jeremy, building on his essays “Meta, Modern” and “Three Theses on Liminality,” helps Gebser’s philosophy to land in the thick of our mutational present.
October 16: ‘Weaving Time’ with Bonnitta Roy
4pm UK / 5pm CEST / 11am EST
Bonnitta will pick up the thread and dive into the interconnected ‘metaphysical primes’ of Time, Change and Causality, building on insights from her previously published essay of the same name. (See here for her ‘Notes Toward a Metamorphosis of Mind’ essay series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 )
She argues we need a new temporics that is resonant with a deeper ontological reality of the human condition as time is a powerful interaction metaphor that is constitutive of our theories of change. All our models of individual development, evolutionary biology, ecological adaptation, resilience thinking and the new sciences of complexity and emergence are up for grabs, if time changes its character.
According to Bonnitta, we are also weavers of time, but we have been weaving unconsciously and so we trap ourselves in our own nets of knowing. How can we free ourselves and become better weavers?
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October 23: ‘Futurability’ with Ivo Mensch
4pm UK / 5pm CEST / 11am EST
Ivo invites us into an exploration of how we may harness time’s power, and get a feel for the potential in different temporal modes available to us when engaging in futuring – the pursuit of goals and how we go about realising desired futures.
In the session we’ll engage in practices of temporal inquiry, exploring different modes of time. Are we really condemned to live through a linear structure of past-present-future or are there alternatives available? Prepare to confront and loosen some imaginal constraints you may have around time.
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October 30th: Discussion on lineages and transmission: Bonnitta, Jeremy, and Ivo together
4pm UK / 5pm CEST / 11am EST
In the final session Bonnitta, Jeremy and Ivo gather for a discussion of specific but relevant temporal manifestations: lineage and transmission. Are lineages, with their rootedness in the past helpful or not? Do we need to rekindle, reimagine and honour these ancient lineages, or will they keep us from growing into the new expressions of culture that we want? Maybe we should listen to the future instead.
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