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Venkatesh Rao
Jun 16, 2021
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This is a book project based on research on temporality conducted primarily during my 2019-20 fellowship at the Berggruen Institute. Draft chapters will be linked on this page as I write them.

Current word count

  • Chapter 1: Pandemic Time 🔒 (abridged free version in Noema)

  • Chapter 2: Indoors in Time 🔒

  • Chapter 3: Operating in Time🔒Operating in Time -2 🔒

  • Chapter 4: Tick-Tock Talk -1 🔒 Tick-Tock Talk -- 2 🔒

  • Chapter 5: Illusions and Collisions - 1 🔒 Illusions and Collisions - 2 🔒Illusions and Collisions - 3🔒

Research Notes

  • Baby Eons: A side-quest on aionic time. I might integrate this into a rewrite of Chapter 1.

  • Pitchdark Futures: A note on why the most imaginable futures are not necessarily the most likely ones, and future blindsight.

  • The Depth of Time: A note on the relationship between the notion of “deep time” and the notion of a “depth of field” in optics.

  • Future Tables: A note on pseudo-determinacy in time conceptualized as “future tables.”

  • Eventfulness: Cleaning up the definitions of chronos, kairos, and aion to get at more complex notions.

The Clockless Clock is something of a sequel to my first book, Tempo (2011). If you're interested in this broad theme, you may want to check that out.

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I will be building on some of the ideas from that book in this one. To receive new chapters or research notes as I write them, consider subscribing to this newsletter.

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