Resistant Temporalities is a critical computation project that rethinks how we experience time and space.

it is a body of work - an atlas of research, writings, artwork, and digital tools.

Over centuries, standardized systems — clocks, calendars, and satellite maps — have transformed time into a rigid construct, and space into flat abstractions.

These tools claim to organize our lives but isolate us from the natural systems that once guided human understanding.

What if we reclaimed time — not as dictated, linear units — but as something shaped through our observation with the sun, moon, stars, and clouds?

The stars moved 15 degrees an hour, the moon marked the month through its phases, and the sun’s path defined location and seasons.

These systems have not changed, but our awareness of them has.

We’ve been coddled by tools that reduce diverse temporal and spatial experiences into a single construct.

These constructs are not neutral—they are deeply political, deeply imperial, and erase alternative ways of knowing while disempowering individuals from having temporal and spatial autonomy.

This project proposes alternatives through a resistant atlas of four maps layering solar, meteorological, and celestial data within a computational framework.

At their core are imaginaries preserved through language—especially in the nomadic life of Arab Bedouins and other civilizations in open landscapes like deserts or the Arctic, where they could only look up.

By returning to environmental observation and culturally embedded knowledge systems, we can begin to rehabilitate sovereignty over time and space.

This work critiques computation by using its own tools—parametric modeling, mathematical graphing, machine learning, and image detection—to challenge its limits while proposing new ways to record and interpret temporal and spatial data.

It’s an experiment in reclaiming agency and reframing technology as an appreciative collaborator, not a dictator.