Relationship with Time

Another essay I've been procrastinating on: clocks and calendars are tools imposed by rulers (consider what "to rule" really means) to measure, manage and control the world. it's a way of colonizing time, which is in many ways even more insidious than colonizing space https://t.co/gbMX3PuPku

Gen Z is clocking in… for facials. ⁠ ⁠ As more and more young people work remotely from spas or take Zoom calls during their beauty treatments, our ideas around wellness have been metabolised by corporate ideas of ‘productivity’.⁠ ⁠ Anastasia, a 28-year-old in London, makes sure she gets all... See more

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Mirrors and clocks transformed society, but they’re so old that nobody questions them. Clocks created a culture of anxiety. Mirrors created a culture of narcissism.