Abstract
In essence， the metaverse can be regarded as a time process， which will magnify and refine the jump， reversal， and delay of the subject against the flow of time， so as to show the intervention of non-linear time in the subjective perception. Secondary to time， speed generates and presents the synthesis of its internal dynamic relations based on time. As a mirror presentation of the temporal logic of modernity， slow time in the metaverse not only inverts the modern cult of speed， but also resists algorithmic time and its determinism. Slow time acts simultaneously as a new mode of perception and memory， allowing the subject to perceive the heterogeneity of time. In addition， the perspective of media archaeology displays the dual pressure of earlier media on fracture and speed， and later media's re-examination of temporal reflexivity. Therefore， slow time reveals a confrontation with historical totality and its pressure， as well as the pressure of globalized temporal imagination on the other， the pressure of chronological hegemony on individual authenticity， and the pressure of time on space. A reflection upon such will become another path to reexamine the question of contemporaneity.
Keywords
the metaverse, time, slowness, media, contemporaneity
First Page
42
Last Page
51
Recommended Citation
Xiong, Yiran. 2023. "The Other of Time： The Metaverse and Its Potential for Slow Time." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 43, (1): pp.42-51. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol43/iss1/6
