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How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
The design of our calendars — the way we arrange our days, weeks, and months — is a reflection of how we aspire to live our lives
Liz Stinson • A Failed Soviet Experiment Offers A Warning To Today’s Burnout Generation
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