Event announcement from Denise Hearn:
The Long Now Foundation and Interintellect invite you to an interactive workshop series with Bayo Akomolafe, a postactivist philosopher, poet, and storyteller, exploring the questions, “What if time misbehaves?” and “What stirs when the clock’s grip loosens?”
Algorithms, news feeds, and notifications fragment our days with urgency. It feels like we’re always running out of time. In 01999, Long Now cofounder Stewart Brand wrote, “Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span.” Today that feels truer than ever; the accelerating tempo is exhausting. But if you’ve ever felt like “more time” wouldn’t actually fix what feels broken, this series is for you. The Untimely is an invitation to step sideways.
Across three sessions on Zoom, including breakout room discussion, participants go deeper into new temporal practices and perspectives. Experience alternative tempos that might help reorient our thinking, behavior, and decision-making for the long term.
May 21, 9 AM –11 AM PT
Part 1: A Fascinating Account of the Meridian Conference of 1884
We begin with the colonial history of how the world’s time zones were invented – a story involving railroad executives, imperial cartography, and the burial of 300 local times.
May 27, 9 AM –11 AM PT
Part 2: The Clock’s Hidden Life
Participants map the specific clocks that govern their lives and ask, “what rhythms were displaced when the schedule moved in?”
June 10, 9 AM –11 AM PT
Part 3: Making Sanctuary for Temporal Fugitives
We conclude with a collective experiment in temporal sanctuary. Participants practice holding temporal knots without forcing their resolution, experiencing the untimely rather than flattening it back into the schedule.
Hosted in partnership with The Long Now Foundation, where Bayo is a member of The Council at Long Now. Facilitation led by Jiordi Rosales.
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