Time in variance Introduction Paul A. Harris Arkadiusz Misztal and Jo Alyson Parker Presidents address : time in variance Raji C. Steineck Out of Platos cave Steve Ostovich From the biotemporal to the ecotemporal in Atilio Caballeros La última playa Lucia Cash Beare Founders lecture : is time out of joint Or at a new threshold Reflections on the temporality of climate change David Wood Slow time : the suspension of a tension Paul A. Harris Temporal otherness and the gifted child in fiction Adam Barrows The seductive quality of variable time in Elder scrolls V : Skyrim Sue Scheibler In the forest of realities : impossible worlds in film and television narratives Sonia Front Out of repetition comes variation : varying time lines invariant time and Doloress glitch in Westworld Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert Time in variance and times invariance in Richard McGuires Here Arkadiusz Misztal Variance in time morphologies in production and consumption of incense in medieval Japan Vroni Ammann Understanding computation time : a critical discussion of time as a computational performance metric David Harris Birtill and Rose Harris Birtill Variations of narrative temporalities in John Farrows 1948 film The big clock Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard Transcending temporal variance : time specificity long distance performance and the intersubjective site Emily DiCarlo Temporal experience in George Benjamins Sudden time Martin Scheuregger. This interdisciplinary volume of essays explores how the notion of time varies across disciplines by examining variance as a defining feature of temporalities in cultural creative and scholarly contexts. Featuring a Presidents Address by philosopher David Wood it begins with critical reassessments of J.T. Frasers hierarchical theory of time through the lens of Anthropocene studies philosophy ecological theory and ecological literature; proceeds to variant narratives in fiction video games film and graphic novels; and concludes by measuring times variance with tools as different as incense clocks and computers and by marking variance in music film and performance art