Time-making and mobile screens

Decades of phenomenological investigations show how temporality and corporeality are co-implied in the unitary givenness of lived experience. The enactive approach to cognition considers mind-worlds interaction as the constitutive process of – individual and collective – becoming. Hence, temporal experience has to be understood as a complex phenomenon emerging from this dynamic in-between, which plastically retroacts on bodies, brains, and world. The aim of this paper is to grasp the relational nature of time experience through the notion of participatory time-making, which is built upon the well-known notion of participatory sense-making. The unfinishedness of minded bodies implies the chance for the mutual incorporation of lived rhythms, always mediated by shared objects, usages, and meanings. This paper discusses how specific objects, such as mobile screens, affect our experience of time and if their impact is always biologically sustainable. Allowing users to navigate beyond the limit of their (physical) situatedness, mobile screens disclose mediated spaces of co-presence within a stream of not interrelated, yet overlapping, temporalities.