The Inventions of TimeSpace Realities: Towards an Understanding of our Historical Systems

Time and space are less external realities than socially-constructed geohistorical phenomena. There are multiple varieties of social time whose relative importance and social usage may be analysed. To each variety of social time is attached a variety of social space, such that we can in fact talk of social Timespaces. Understanding the existence of a multiplicity of TimeSpaces has considerable implications for scientific activity. It also has implications for moral choice, at those moments of TimeSpace when 'order' gives way to 'chaos,' that is, when structures are in transition. Clarity of choice is dependent on utilising more adequate categories of TimeSpace.