At the same time, certain conceptions of the past become dominant or hegemonic among different temporalities, such as the linear conception of time and history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Indeed, our very notion of history as an irreversible movement is inseparably tied to the conception of time as a linear succession of some bounded

has been shown that time should be viewed as historical, with past and future being deeply intertwined with the present. This notion of time, the A-series, is broadly consistent with that found within the physical sciences.

time is a sense. In a world where time is a sense, like sight or like taste, a sequence of episodes may be quick or may be slow, dim or intense, salty or sweet, causal or without cause, orderly or random, depending on the prior history of the viewer.

In a world where time is a quality, events are recorded by the color of the sky, the tone of the boatman’s call on the Aare, the feeling of happiness or fear when a person comes into a room. The birth of a baby, the patent of an invention, the meeting of two people are not fixed points in time, held down by hours and minutes. Instead, events glide