time

is not linear. Time is a sort of irregular flux in which states of consciousness alternate with states of unconsciousness. Time is thus apprehended in different 'layers of subjectivity.'.

in his Anthropology of Time, Alfred Gell wisely criticizes the vision of linear time that has long characterized anthropological studies. Along with other authors, he considers it, on the one hand, necessary to move beyond this antagonism between the temporality of everyday life and mythological temporality... and, on the other hand, to envision time according to a sort of irregular flux in which states of consciousness alternate with states of unconsciousness. For Gell, time is apprehended in different 'layers of subjectivity.'

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Alfred Gilmer Lamplugh