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The Tyranny of Time | NOEMA
the clock is just one tool among many for reckoning time, and its full meaning emerges only when it’s joined with a particular goal or cosmology.
Jenny Odell • Saving Time
But outsourcing authority to the mechanical clock has severed time from all connection to the body or the season by breaking life into a series of discrete units—the effect of which, writes Mumford, “helped [to] create the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences.”
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
In the quiet moments before dawn, when the world should still be wrapped in the gentle embrace of darkness, millions of us are jolted awake by the harsh cry of alarm clocks. This daily violence against our natural rhythms is not merely an inconvenience—it is a symptom of a deeper malady that plagues our modern existence, one that manifests in three... See more
The Cycles of Modern Life: Urgency, Control, and the Illusion of Comfort
Man’s perception of time is closely linked with his internal rhythms. But his responses to time are culturally conditioned.
Alvin Toffler • Future Shock
Sharma argues that the contemporary relationship to time is characterized by “the looming expectation that everyone must become an entrepreneur of time control.” Each of us must “recalibrate” to temporal expectations that vary widely along lines of power and privilege.