Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis
Overview
The Hopi-time controversy is a debate about whether, or not, differences in the way English and Hopi languages describe time are an example of linguistic relativity – i.e. that language is entangled with cognition. The debate started when the linguist, Benjamin Whorf, compared standard English to Hopi language references to time, in “words, grammatical forms, construction or expressions.”
Regardless of whether you support a relativist or universalist relationship between language and thought, the invention of new words does help us describe and imagine new trajectories of work. For example, shortly after the photographs were introduce, chrono-photography was developed.
Using the Time-Saving Self-Estranging Concatenation Machine invent a word for an unprecedented time-related branch of thought. Write a new prompt for it. Then complete that prompt.
Instructions
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Relevant Tutorials
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Required Reading:
Marta Braun, Picturing Time, Chapter 1.
Optional Reading:
Jacques Rancière, The Time of Landscape, 000-000.
Other References:
Marta Braun, Picturing Time, Chapter 1.