One of the more significant issues to have emerged from the discourse surrounding the Anthropocene has concerned the apparent incommensurability of human and natural history and the vastly different timescales involved. More generally, such discourse raises critical questions about the very different way time is conceptualized in the natural sciences as opposed to in the social sciences and humanities. In this article, I draw on my own disciplinary background in archaeology in order to contribute to these differences and build bridges between the two disciplinary domains by foregrounding the materiality of time. I use a partly allegorical approach inspired by Edwin Abbott's nineteenth‐century novel Flatland to investigate a notion of three‐dimensional of time, which I compare with Gilles Deleuze's three temporal syntheses. The article argues for the concept of Thick Time, which emphasizes the importance of time as constituted by things, whereby things make time rather than exist within it. A material time is one that foregrounds time as a mode of transmission, a “passing on,” and of the persistence of the past in the present.

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时空冒险

围绕人类世的讨论中出现的更重要的问题之一涉及人类历史和自然历史明显的不可通约性以及所涉及的截然不同的时间尺度。更一般地说，这样的论述提出了关于时间在自然科学中与社会科学和人文学科中截然不同的概念化方式的关键问题。在这篇文章中，我利用自己的考古学学科背景，通过突出时间的重要性来弥补这些差异，并在两个学科领域之间建立桥梁。我使用了一种部分寓言的方法，灵感来自埃德温·阿博特的十九世纪小说平原研究三维时间的概念，我将其与吉尔·德勒兹的三个时间综合进行比较。文章主张“厚时间”的概念，强调时间由事物构成的重要性，事物借此创造时间而不是存在于时间之中。物质时间是一种将时间作为一种传递方式、一种“传递”以及过去在当下持续存在的方式。