The Shape of Time
March 26, 2025 at 12:36AMIs time strictly linear, the clock ticking relentlessly forward infinitely, second-by-second? Or, could time take different shapes, perhaps as a circle, a spiral, or maybe even a more organic form, such as the tributaries of a river? For Orion Magazine, Priya Subberwal examines various metaphors for marking time amid end-stage capitalism, man-made suffering, climate change, and queerness, wondering which helps us to gaze into the present and future without looking away.
There’s more than one way to measure the movement of a life through time. Life is not only a linear succession of steps, but also a tension of pluralities and contradictions, negotiations of new terrain, accidental evolutions, attempts to relate differently. All of us are reaching, becoming, unfolding, emerging. Because the present is so unstable, we must constantly balance on new ground. Standing still would mean sinking below the current.
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2025/03/25/the-shape-of-time/
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