Abstract

Employing an auto-ethnographic perspective and non-linear notions of time, "Sculpting in Time" identifies erosions of meaning and agency under techno-capitalism and explores the implications of their disappearance for the democratic ideal. The theoretical framework of this research-creation dissertation problematizes linear conception of time and posits that the rethinking of time can be emancipatory; when time is seen instead as the unfolding of relations, with others and with oneself, sensitivities can be honed toward other ways of embodying the present and conceptualizing notions of progress.