time
Unlike Demeter-style time, whose seasonal, organic cycles have a natural rhythm and serve as our ally, Cronos-style time is mechanical and contrived; it creates a life of busyness and devours its subjects, so that it comes to feel like an enemy, even like the Grim Reaper himself.
Steven Wolf • Romancing the Shadow
Demeter-style time
Cronos time style
I—S—O—P—T: In search of Personalized Time
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As the Earth orbits the Sun in an ellipse, it moves more quickly at perihelion (closest-to-the-Sun) and more slowly at aphelion (farthest-from-the-Sun), which leads to changes in the time at which the Sun rises and sets, as well as the duration of the actual day, over the course of a year. The obliquity of Earth’s orbit also affects the equation of time. These patterns repeat annually and are latitude-specific, but generally lead to a “figure 8” pattern for Earth’s analemma: the shape our Sun traces throughout the sky at the same time every day throughout the year.
moon phases 🌒
Through video calls, we can now communicate instantly with people on the other side of the planet, thereby collapsing distance. Through technologies such as video recording, we now document more comprehensive records of the past / our past selves, thereby collapsing time. This makes how we view the past different from those before photography and v... See more