Thursday09 Aug 12:48 PM

Time Beyond Clocks: The Felt Time Of Jihad

"True chronology in counter-terrorism must embrace more than the uniform intervals of clocks... [Supporting] a greater awareness of the subjective metaphysics of time, a reality that is based not on equally numbered moments but rather upon representations of time as lived..." From a bizarre yet smart Christian Science Monitor reconsideration of time and Jihad. Link. -[SA]

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Spiros Antonopoulos

TAGS — Christian Science Monitor, experience, jihad, terrorism, time

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