Saved by Kalyani T
Time Capsules — Real Life
The pace of our lives is always speeding up because these supposed time-saving technologies turn time into a resource.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Speed is essential. Beyond tech speed, I can recognise other types of speed, though I'm unsure how many there are.
Here are a few ideas:
Tech speed – Efficiency in digital processing, communication, process reproduction, raw calculation. No need to think.
Cheetah speed – Raw, biological speed; physical speed at its peak. Evolutionary speed.
Human speed
Speed and efficiency are the promise of modernity. But speed and efficiency are all destination and no journey. And it is journey that gives life meaning.
Things I'm thinking about
Mark Fishman added
Several attributes and practices valorized by a monochronic understanding of time —which we could also call Rapid-Growth Capitalism time, or Productivity Fetishist time, or White Bourgeois time — are objectively in service of efficiency. And yet, big surprise, they are often highly inefficient.
Culture Study • The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture
Jay Matthews added
Technological acceleration doesn’t save time; it just allows for (infinitely) more actions inside a unit of time.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
You can't beat time
lili added
Time is flat. There has never been more of it, but we have never been so busy. But we are busy with noise, moving along a timescale that is maybe just a little too fast!! Rushkoff argues that we have experienced narrative collapse.
kyla scanlon • Why We Don't Trust Each Other Anymore
Brian Wiesner added