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We are haunted by time. Fears for the future, regrets from the past. The gnawing doubt that even this instantaneous moment of now is simply a ghost in the machinery of our minds. Time is fleeting, but ever-present. Time marches on, indifferent and conquering, until the final tick of the final clock.
In this lecture, Daniel Pietersen will explore the haunted corners of Gothic Time (and relative dimensions) through the use of key texts such as Cube 2: Hypercube, The Langoliers, Dark and Edge of Tomorrow. These examples will allow Pietersen to look at how temporal anomalies like time loops, parallel timelines and maelstroms can be used to examine ideas of what it means to haunt and to be haunted. Philosophical theories such as Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence and Bergson’s concept of duration will also be used to investigate what we even mean when we talk about time and the implications that definition might have for both the living and the dead.
After all, there’s no time like the present.
Or is there?
