ABSTRACT
The constitution of time in communal life under each of the ideal-typical orientations can best be understood by considering various groups which approximate such orientations. This chapter describes a phenomenology of time possibilities and examines various ways in which time is constituted in communal living groups. For people in communal groups, the revolution, whatever its nature, is carried out in everyday life. A diachronic structure of world time provides an objective standard of physical duration in terms of which the work and life of group members may be coordinated. Paralleling a diachronic world time, members of Twin Oaks experience subjective time constituted in part by memory and anticipation. In the transcendental formation, the enactment is not of a single collective time sense or a mosaic of individual time orientations, but of a simultaneous experience of time in which participants ‘get off’ on the moments and the changes.
