In our class last night we discussed three types of time that persist in our lives:
a) Teleological time, which is like a cause-->effect, beginning leads to end, linear time that relates to a purpose life
b) Stellar time, in which our life consists of intermingling scenarios that affect our daily lives (think of the movie Crash as an example)
c) Entropic, or chaotic time: life's events are completely random, and therefore there is no purpose or meaning to life
Starting tomorrow and up until Sunday you will use your Twitter account to post and follow responses about your daily activities. Be sure to post/visit at least twice a day, and to post not only experiences but also personal reflections about your studies, personal life, or values. The more you post the better; we want to be aware that there is life going on outside of our classroom--and that life can have an effect on us!
From Sunday-Wednesday, you should post a response on this blog that does the following:
1. Discuss what type of time most influences yours and others' lives based on TWITTER. Were you at all affected by what your peers were writing? Did anything unanticipated happen that ruptured your daily construct of living?
2. Spend about 15 minutes playing with the hypertext reading of Borges' text. What do you think the designer intended for us to learn through this hypertext activity? Did you find yourself running in circles? Were you attracted to certain words more than others? If so, what do you think this says about you?
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