Vtělená temporalita: smyslové vnímání času v antropologické perspektivě
Etnologické rozpravy July 17, 2026 Miroslav Horák
Time is not an objective framework or a mental representation but an embodied, multisensory, and culturally mediated process. The present is a dynamic threshold between past and future, shaped by perception, memory, and anticipation. Vision structures time through movement, hearing through rhythm, and touch through bodily practice; interoception links felt time to physiological states, while smell and taste reactivate the past. Using Bourdieu's habitus, the article connects micro-perception to social rhythms. In late modernity, experiences of time slipping away result from disrupted rhythms and fragmented attention; slowing-down practices restore embodied presence. Time is best understood as a mode of sensory being-in-the-world.