African Notions of Time and Consciousness Placed on a Western Linear Timeline
- Title
- African Notions of Time and Consciousness Placed on a Western Linear Timeline
- Description
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The past and present overlap in an African conception of time, as the present swallows up the future and the past swallows up the present. Your activity is what determines how quickly or slowly time moves, not a mathematically pre-determined rate of time where, if you do not fit your activity within the rate, you either end up with a surplus or shortage of time. Time is not its own entity in the African consciousness; it is a component of events and an experience that can be created, produced, saved, or retrieved. Life is made up of events, and events are defined by certain relationships, patterns, and rhythms.
Based on similar principles inherent to quantum and African features of time, a [Black Quantum Futurism (BQF)] paradigm of time is assumed to be perfectly symmetrical, such as the way it is for quantum matter and as it is in African time traditions, with varying layers and connections of cause and effect within the infinite possibilities for the interaction of potential and manifest matter.
With BQF event building, events can be built from scratch. BQF Creatives believe that at each point in space-time lies an enfolded potential of events. There are infinite space-time points, first activated by a birth event and continuing along the natural timeline. Space-times can be divided into smaller or larger intervals, or even redefined non-mathematically, as opposed to the 1 second by 1 second linear mode of time that defines the rate at which we move into the future. - Designer
- Phillips, Rasheedah
- Date
- 2015
- Bibliographic Citation
- Phillips, R. (2015). Constructing a Theory and Practice of Black Quantum Futurism. In Phillips, R. (Ed.), Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice, Vol. I. Afrofuturist Affair/House of Future Sciences. Pages 24-25.
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