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

āIn a situation where every waking moment has become the time in which we make our living,ā Odell notes, āand 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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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 moreThe closer technology brings us to the cusp of feeling like we are the gods of our time, the more incredibly offensive it seems to be reminded of all the ways in which we still arenāt. So you get this utterly bizarre situation where the world speeds up and gets more and more efficient, and we have all this technology for saving time, but it
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