Time
Clocks are mechanical media that transform tasks and create new work and wealth by accelerating the pace of human association. By coordinating and accelerating human meetings and goings-on, clocks increase the sheer quantity of human exchange.
Marshall McLuhan, 1961.
The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age. For every phase of its development the clock is both the outstanding fact and the typical symbol of the machine: even today no other machine is so ubiquitous.
Lewis Mumford • Technics and Civilization
Chronemics is an anthropological, philosophical, and linguistic subdiscipline that describes how time is perceived, coded, and communicated across a given culture. It is one of several subcategories to emerge from the study of nonverbal communication.
Thomas J. Bruneau • Chronemics
\Vhat is different is the way they use and experience time. For the Tiv, time is like a capsule. There is a time for visit-ing, for cooking, or for working; and when one is in one of these times, one does not shift to another.
Edward T. Hall • THE SILENT LANGUAGE
Some of the regulating mechanisms for collectives that have been most successful in the pre-Internet world can be understood in part as modulating the time domain.
DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism | Edge.org
The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us.
Joe Zadeh • The Tyranny Of Time
In Greek mythology, Chronos was “Father Time” and he devoured his own children. One son got away and rose above time to become a God; this was Zeus. He formed an uprising against time and became the king of the pantheon. I think the Gods preferred an alternate type of time called “Kairos” a fleeting moment that was pregnant with opportunity. It’s
... See moreThose of us who have learned now know that the dance doesn't start at a particular time. It is geared to no schedule. It starts when "things" are ready!
Edward T. Hall • THE SILENT LANGUAGE
The Pueblo Indians, for example, who li ve in the Southwest, have a sense of time which is at complete variance with the clock-bound habits of the ordinary American citizen. For the Pueblos events begin when the time is ripe and no sooner.
Edward T. Hall • THE SILENT LANGUAGE
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