Time
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.
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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
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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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
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.
Those 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
\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
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 n
... See moreThe 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.