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The Tyranny Of Time
It was European commercial activity and colonialism that occasioned our current system for measuring and keeping time and, with it, the valuing of time as interchangeable “stuff” that can be stacked up, traded, and moved around.
Jenny Odell • Saving Time
As Kei Kreutler points out, conventional calendars and time lines seem awfully out of date now that we are lost in a multi-temporal garden of forking memes. This dissonance between felt time and measured time gets more confusing by the day, and it’s beginning to feel unsustainable. Amidst the unsettling chaos, it’s tempting to crawl back to the tim... See more
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
