Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and
Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and



The internet embodies this carnival temporality with startling clarity:
• Cyclical bursts : meme cycles, outrage waves, and news frenzies erupt, fade, and return with variation.
• Inversions : anonymous users become viral, while experts, CEOs, and politicians are mocked, parodied, or dethroned.
• Acceleration & simultaneity : the timeline collapses
... See more“In a situation where every waking moment has become the time in which we make our living,” Odell notes, “and when we submit even our leisure for numerical evaluation via likes on Facebook and Instagram, constantly checking on its performance like one checks a stock, time becomes an economic resource that we can no longer justify spending on
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