The philosopher Slavoj Žižek is always interesting. Verbose in his academic books but frequently provocative and inspirational in short treatises, articles and interviews. An example is in this article published through the  online journal Jacobin in January 2023. He argues that if we are to confront properly the threat of a catastrophe, we must embrace a new notion of time.

For Serres, different tempos and rhythms of time that run through everything are far more interesting than space that is observed as if on a stage. He highlighted the irreversibility and contingency of time that was a key feature of the Nobel-prize winning chemist Ilya Prigogine. They seem to have both influenced each other. In conversation between Prigogine, the composer John Cage and philosopher Huston Smith, Prigogine offered a snapshot of a perception of time that he shared with Serres:

We can estimate the time of the universe going back to the big bang. We live in time and space. But time never stands still, always becoming. Space encompasses us and we pass through it. Time works through every particle. Time creates. Creation is time … (Prigogine, Cage and Smith, 1990)