In a piece for the Times' Opinionator blog, Temple philosopher Espen Hammer contemplates the modern experience of time. Most of our experiences are socially-constituted and situated in temporal sequences. But some are intimate and personal: "These are the ones that not only point beyond the deadening sequentiality of mere clock time but have the capacity to open new territories and vistas for human growth and authenticity....We need moments outside the regular temporal flow to explode the empty repetition of clock time."