he Fourth Time – Between Rhythm and Social Cultures

From the industrial metronome to somatic loops, how to rediscover the inner beat that completes Chronos, Kairos and Aion

Why a Fourth Time?

You can count thirty breaths in a still posture and feel as though an hour has passed. You can run while syncing your breath to your stride and sense that the body leads the way, not the clock. These tiny experiences, repeated in a silent room or on a sidewalk rustling with leaves, say the same thing with very humble words: there is a tempo that cannot be read, only felt. This is what I call the fourth time.

We have learned to live in the shadow of a great clock. Cities blink to the rhythm of the diode, projects squeeze into weekly boxes, bodies stay awake when night would ask us to gently close the shutters.

“If no one asks me what time is, I know; if I am asked, I no longer know,” wrote Augustine. This perplexity does us justice.

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