The Future is Behind You & Other Ways of Looking at Time

Time is money, right? Only if you make it so. Time is something we use to make sense of change and chaos. Listen to this episode to learn more about how research defines different ways to orient oneself toward time. This episode includes some meaningful self-reflection on your own relationship with time and steps on changing it, if you'd like.

The research and media in the episode in the order they are referenced:

Pickering, K. (2004). Decolonizing Time Regimes: Lakota Conceptions of Work, Economy, and Society. American Anthropologist, 106(1), 85–97. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3567444

Helman C. G. (2005). Cultural aspects of time and ageing. Time is not the same in every culture and every circumstance; our views of aging also differ. EMBO reports, 6 Spec No(Suppl 1), S54–S58. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.embor.7400402

How Different Cultures Understand Time from CulturallyModified.org: https://culturallymodified.org/how-different-cultures-understand-time-best-of/

Nanni, Giordano. (2012). The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire. 10.7228/manchester/9780719082719.001.0001.

What Time Looks Like to Different Cultures from PopSci.com: https://www.popsci.com/what-time-looks-like-to-different-cultures/

Pause on Play Podcast with Self-Identified Decolonial Time Mender Ixchel Lunar: https://pauseontheplay.com/potp/18

Rovelli, C., Segre, E., & Carnell, S. (2018). The order of time. New York, New York, Riverhead Books.

How Different Cultures Understand Time from the LOTE Agency: https://www.loteagency.com.au/how-different-cultures-understand-time/

What Happens When a Language Has No Numbers (Piraha tribe) from Slate: https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/10/piraha-cognitive-anumeracy-in-a-language-without-numbers.html

Piraha - Brazil's Extraordinary Language from the World Language Group: https://www.unitedlanguagegroup.com/learn/piraha-brazils-extraordinary-language

Big thanks to these artists for the sampling of their tracks: Alexiaction, Penguin Music, Ambient Sounds and Benjamin Tissot.