Alan Edwards posits a distinction between natural time, and human constructions of time. Athletes are said to be able to train themselves to measure the relative amounts of humanly constructed time. Ahh, Sunday is the end of daylight-saving time. Go… Read More ›
Sport
The natural temporality of grass growing rates is outside human control – Gitting.
Paul Gitting reports on the lack of control that humans have over the natural temporality of grass growing rates. This is distinguished from the ways that different rates of growth can be experimented with technologically. This latter form of growth,… Read More ›
Baseball is the truest sporting expression of natural time, as it is not divided into timed periods – Aronson.
Martin Aronson describes baseball as the sport which is the most closely associated with natural time. This is because unlike a sport like football which divides its playing time into equal periods of humanly measured time, baseball’s playing time is… Read More ›