chronological and kairotic time orderings
Chronos was the Greek god of time, but Kairos was the god of right time, of proper time. Kairos in Greek means "time, place, circumstances of a subject" Chronos measures time in mechanical intervals, Kairos jumps and slows down, omits long periods and details others the switch from chronological to kairotic time is best symbolized in European history by the change from "annals" to "chronicles" and to a "proper history": an annal might have a subject, a centre (a diocese for example), and a proper beginning in time but remains in chronological time, following an order of events by their occurrence and so cannot offer a kind of meaning a metanarrative can
chronological accounts are raw accounts for kairotically organized narratives - kairotic time can't be directly experienced as, for example, nothing in the laboratory happens then and there in front of the researcher as they are observing - all important events happen somewhere else in some other place, in other words in the accounts because no-one is aware of how important an event is until it is made important
chronological time structures the present and near future - kairotic time structures the past and distant future
for example, appellation is a symptom of kairotic time
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/REQVAR.html Law of Requisite Variety: a controlling system must have exactly as much variety as the system it is to control - appellation is an example of a designation by the control system over the controlled system that invokes the ability of the one system to direct the other according to the wishes of the first - most organisations run by interplaying both kairotic and chronological time functions
[action net]? and their actors
control is circular, existing between the controlled and the controlling systems, themselves together forming a control system (eg. thermostat), but control lies between, and between needs situating as interaction
control doesn't exist in one system except by convention, and when systems are transcomputational they are unmanageable (eg information flows, the classroom) except by reducing their complexity (again the classroom example see footnote 1 machining ), changing the organizational structure of control (eg. through shifting coalitions of group control -→ contemporary classroom methodologies), or change our responses to disorder, situated at the point of interaction between the (nominally) controlled and controlling systems -→ 1:1 mapping therefore not possible, nor desireable, in other words the language for control cannot be coded -→ because it would be a language engineering where language would be required to compress and expand varieties between systems, to the variety in the system that has more would somehow have to be compressed to be communicate to the system that has less
(re: http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~mfrangos/althusser.html althusser, http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-butl.htm butler on interpellation and discourse)
conversation is autopoeitic engineering between two partners, human or machinic, where what we put in is not what we get out
added 27.12 thermodynamics and entropy:
time in relativistic and quantum physics has been spatialized as clock time, kronos in thermodynamics time is a measure of process, how quickly energy is expended, kairos its duration, may vary with circumstance> like the “Duree” of Bergson, the Kairos of an Algebraic Deformation in Inequivalent Vacuum States (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/tpru/BasilHiley/14MomentsANPA2001W.pdf) "I see this as an a-local concept, which has extension in time. It is a kind of 'extenson' or 'duron'. We can think of this as a necessary consequence of the energy-time uncertainty principle. For a process with a given energy cannot be described as unfolding at an instant except in some approximation"
brain processes aree of both aspects of time / pribram et al describe that in "the posterior parts of the brain, the processes described by the Fourier transform domain, by virtue of movement, form symmetry groups that describe invariance, that is, objects in space and in Kronos, clock time. Alternatively, in the frontal and limbic portions of the brain the processes described result in the experience of Kairos, the duration of an episode."