Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and
Relationship with Time
There will always be too much to do – and this realisation is liberating. Today more than ever, there’s just no reason to assume any fit between the demands on your time – all the things you would like to do, or feel you ought to do – and the amount of time available. Thanks to capitalism, technology and human ambition, these demands keep... See more
oliverburkeman.com • Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
this reminds me of Byung-Chul Han’s work on the disappearance of rituals.
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 moreSachin • Meme Time vs Archival Time - By Sachin - Summer Lightning
