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added by sari and · updated 3mo ago
added by sari and · updated 3mo ago
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.
Kalyani T added 2y ago
Clock time is not what most people think it is. It was created, and it is frequently altered and adjusted to fit social and political purposes.
Kalyani T added 2y ago
One of the most affecting myths of clock time is that we all experience time at the same steady pace. We don’t. “The future is already here,” the science-fiction author William Gibson famously said in 2003, “it’s just not very evenly distributed.” And framing the climate crisis as a ticking clock with only a certain amount of time “to avoid disaste
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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. 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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sari added 2y ago
sari added 2y ago
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” wrote the literary critic Fredric Jameson. One of the hardest elements to imagine is what capitalism has done to our perception of time via clocks. It now seems embedded into our very psychology to view time as a commodity that can be spent or wasted.
simon added 4mo ago
The clock does not measure time; it produces it.
Kalyani T added 2y ago
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