Introduction

The global rhythms of consumption practices

“…The experience of being in the world is “inescapably temporal” (Phillips, 2017: 1); sports practitioners, for instance, describe positive temporal experiences unfolding from routines and practices (Murakami, 2009). Increasingly, practice theorists (Shove, 2012; Southerton, 2013, 2020; Holmes, 2018; Blue, 2019) and consumer culture scholars (Woermann and Rokka, 2015; Husemann and Eckhardt, 2019) are exploring the relationship between practices and temporal experiences, albeit rarely including a magnification approach that delves into the temporal experience of complexes of practices and accomplishments (Shove, Pantzar, and Watson, 2012; Southerton, 2020).…”

Commentary: Physical time within human time

“…Part of the problem lies in the substantive disagreement about what temporal experience involves in the first place (Skow, 2015;Prosser, 2016;Callender, 2017;Phillips, 2017;Sullivan, 2018;Sattig, 2019;Miller and Wang, 2022). At some approximation, which appears to be adopted by Gruber et al and Buonomano and Rovelli, there are three core aspects to our manifest image of time: (i) the notion of a unique objective present (the "time of our lives"), (ii) the perception of time flow, and (iii) an asymmetry between the past and future directions of time: We think of the past as fixed and of the future as open, and we have memories of the former but not of the latter.…”