Rey Calingo Tiquia, University of Melbourne
Posted: April 15, 2018
The Stems and Branches Calendrical Clock (Southern and Northern Hemispheres) is a new global space time system whereby the 60 (sexagenary) stems and branches cyclical symbols representing the flow of the lunar years, months, days and 12 two-hour time periods of the traditional Chinese calendar are arrayed in tandem with the years, months and days of the Western Gregorian calendar and the 24-hour system of Coordinated Universal Time. The Stems and Branches Calendrical Clock is a heterogeneous assemblage of nature, people, places and practices which are site and time specific and thus inhabits a space time‘. This shared space time metaphysics or nature and humans as one‘ metaphysics or ‘unified field of all existence’ is sustained by the social labour of creating equivalences and connections, i.e. spacetime equivalences and connections in and between various time zones in all hemispheres of the globe. When varying knowledge traditions are performed in this spacetime way, an emergent local (time), national and transnational real world comes into existence.