This article focuses on the concept of ‘time collapse’ commonly used within scholarship on digital memory. Despite its intuitive appeal, I claim that the notion of a collapsed time leaves considerable room for conceptual ambiguity, which in turn hampers a deeper ethical analysis of the topic. In view of this ambiguity, the present article sets out to provide analytical rigor to, and thus unpack the ethical dimensions of, the notion of time collapse. Pursuing this goal, I introduce the concept of temporal friction, denoting informational resistance that makes moments of time perceivable as separate for an embodied epistemic agent. I argue that the concept of temporal friction offers a more flexible and precise interpretation of collapsed time, and draw on two examples – search warrants and the so-called digital remains – to illustrate its ethical significance.

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时间远程呈现理论：重新考虑数字时间崩溃

本文重点介绍数字记忆研究中常用的“时间崩溃”概念。尽管它具有直观的吸引力，但我声称崩溃时间的概念为概念歧义留下了相当大的空间，这反过来又阻碍了对该主题进行更深入的伦理分析。鉴于这种模糊性，本文着手提供分析的严谨性，从而解开时间崩溃概念的伦理维度。为了实现这个目标，我引入了时间摩擦的概念，表示信息阻力，它使时间对于具体化的认知代理来说是分开的。我认为时间摩擦的概念提供了对崩溃时间的更灵活和精确的解释，