Hey English speakers!
If you want to know more about the great, grand Henri Bergson... well, you should ready my friend and amazing Bergsonian - Emily Herring's book. But if you're lazy and want something short, and not as beautifully written you can read my Encyclopaedia entry here: https://iep.utm.edu/bergson/
(This is also the very first piece I wrote after giving birth so it may be of interest for those of you who are studying the « mommy brain »)
I use music and a ProTools example to illustrate the difference between duration and time. I even invoked the debate between Bergson and Einstein in 1922.
Time doesn't exist. It's merely a useful heuristic that humans use for social structure. Duration is more intrinsic. Physics has created a space-time map and confused it with the underlying terrain.
#philosophy #physics #time #duration #blog #podcast #Einstein #Bergson #debate #music #metaphor #social #ClaudeAI
I present the sections below, + or - one or two, as an independent series because, in completing a trajectory of thought, they seem to complete themselves. Each was written, although in succession, mostly represented by the numerial series from ⓪–⑩, in independent response to a problem, not necessarily philosophical, I had
The Legibility of Time: What Physics, Governance, and Poetry Have in Common
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-legibility-of-time?r=pvxh5
#philosophy #physics #reading #books #time #rovelli #bergson #einstein #legibility #method #thoreau #weeds #flowers #blog
Bergson, la durée et l’accélération technique : quand le temps vécu s’efface
Pour Bergson, la durée – le temps vécu, subjectif – s’oppose au temps mesuré des horloges. L’ accélération technique moderne écrase cette durée, sacrifiant la maturation et la mémoire profonde au profit de l’instantanéité. #Bergson #temps #accélération #mémoire #philosophie #temporalité
The title comes from Bergson's Matter and Memory. (Translation, N.M. Paul and W.S. Palmer for Zone Books, p. 170; the online searchable copy p. 69 (yes, they pack a lot in).) The title recalls Baudelaire's essay "The Painter of Modern Life." (see links) I read it while preparing
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