Unhinged:<i>Kairos</i>and the Invention of the Untimely

Leston, Robert

doi:10.1080/15456870.2013.743325

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“…Our focus is on timing and change and the rich possibilities available to people as they grapple with their individual and collective futures. To borrow from communication theory (Leston 2013), futurists mobilize a context’s kairos , “right timing,” in our attempt to problematize the present and explore alternatives that appear as cracks, roads not taken, in the past and the present. Robert Leston suggests that kairos is the inventive principle at the heart of timing.…”

Section: Time’s Callingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…His description of the “untimely” as a rupture in linear chronological time that generates the interstitial moment for rupture provides us with an insight into the destabilizing work of the futurist:The untimely seeps in through this interstice, shocking us out of our habitual way of accepting the flow of time. (Leston 2013, 46)…”

Section: Time’s Callingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The untimely seeps in through this interstice, shocking us out of our habitual way of accepting the flow of time. (Leston 2013, 46)…”

Section: Time’s Callingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This unhinging invites our clients to act —to fill time with alternative images, to take new pathways and weave new supportive narratives. As Leston (2013, 47) argues,When I am confronted with an image or set of images that are too great for me, when I encounter the sublime, rather than beautifying it, the ego experiences a “crack.” It is just then, when the sensory-motor schema has broken down, when we cannot continue to narrativize, and when time is unhinged; in short, when we have reached our limit, it is then, in that gap, in that kairos, that invention becomes possible, even necessary.…”

Section: Time’s Callingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Time’s Calling: Time, Timing, and Transformation in Futures Work

Bussey

2017

World Futures Review

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Futurists work with time, yet we rarely consider the full implications of what this means. It could equally be said that futurists work within time, navigating the cultures and ecologies of time that shape the worlds they seek to enable. The most interesting result of this way of looking at what futurists do, with and within time, is that it opens up a space for human action that is creative and reflexive. Futurists work with time not because their work concerns the future but because they are interested in change. Change is the work of heads, hands, and hearts over time. It is the result of both accident and intention and dominates our experience of Modernity. The futurist enters a change-context to help individuals, organizations, and communities enhance their adaptive potential. This paper works with thinking about time from a futures perspective. My goal is to drill down into the temporal inventiveness of futures work by dwelling on the linguistic and conceptual aspects of temporal discourse. What really interests me in this is how futurists can leverage a variety of temporal concepts to better achieve their goal of making elements of time, timing, and transformation explicit to their clients and students.

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Section: Time’s Callingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Time’s Callingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The untimely seeps in through this interstice, shocking us out of our habitual way of accepting the flow of time. (Leston 2013, 46)…”

Section: Time’s Callingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Time’s Callingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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