May Reflections - Dee W Hock
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May Reflections - Dee W Hock
“The infoverse may be infinite, but our allotment of days is not.” We ought to be conscious of how far and how quickly we move through the internet. But without a physical way to observe our time spent online, we risk scrolling, skimming, and hyperlinking ourselves to oblivion.
Jon Gacnik • On observing time /╲/╲/╲
This notion of time as an “economic resource” is exactly what vibing aims to break away from... time is not an empty thing we have to fill but a living thing that we must shape. Time changes. Because the world changes, and we change with it. To vibe is to shape time into pleasure, to mold it into something that feels soft and tastes sw
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Mary Retta • on vibing
I see time to be directly linked to attention. You can fuse with your surroundings (archaic time), lock into one object (magical time/flow/addiction), orient around events, narrative or cycles (mythical time), or obsess over budgeting hours and minutes (rational time). The idea of escaping rational time and realizing “I am time” is liberating, and
... See moreTime has always been an imaginary concept, and it matters who imagines it. For most of history, time has been governed by our relationship to the more-than-human world: the rising of the sun and the turning of the seasons. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, time was separated from the earth, and suborned by industry for its own e
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