Lived time is the presentness of living in which infinite time(s) is woven in indeterminate ways through a trans-time condensation that generates uncertainty. This lived time uncertainty unfolds through the not-words of lived time discarded by the rational mind: the unexpected, the unknown, the impermanent, the unforeseen, the unpredictable. Lived time implies the researcher be a be(do)er while dwelling on his or her research-design project. From life comes life, from evasion, comes evaded knowledge. You are a doer when you embrace being a being. The present tense is the tense of lived time. Things are at the same depth they become. Open your ears, your heart, and see the unseen, seek the unsought, seed the unsown. Impermanence is what makes everything possible; open to it and lived time will flow within you.
Published in Chapter:
The Cycles of Impermanent Alterity in Nazaré
Cidália Ferreira Silva (University of Minho, Portugal) and Marisa Carvalho Fernandes (University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2018
|Pages: 32
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4186-8.ch018
Abstract
What happens when a small city expands from 15,000 to 100,000 inhabitants in the summertime? How do temporary inhabitants of Nazaré (Portugal) change the rhythms of its everyday life? How does large-scale tourism change their supporting economic activities or even replace activities such as fishing? Is this seemingly rigid urban fabric elastic enough to expand and adapt to these exponential “others”? The “impermanent alterity” explains the result of the relationship established between land and water, between the “I” and the “other” that come to Nazaré to step onto the warm sand during the summer days. There is a visible cycle of summer-winter change, which the network of lived time interconnections can be found in simple things like the gray pavement line organizing uses, as a device that adapts matter to the cycles of change. Time is the operator of this “impermanent alterity,” and the residents and outsiders alike make it visible.