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The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us.
noemamag.com • The Tyranny of Time | NOEMA
The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us.
noemamag.com • The Tyranny of Time | NOEMA
The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us. Borrowing a term from the environmentalist Bill McKibben, Michelle Bastian, a senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and editor of the academic journal Time & Society, has argued that clocks have made us “fatally
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With artificial light, we believe we defeat the sleep-wake cycle; with climate control, the seasonal cycle; with refrigeration, the agricultural cycle; and with high-tech medicine, the rest-recovery cycle. Triumphal linearism has shaped the very style of Western and (especially) American civilization. Before, when cyclical time reigned, people valu... See more