Kalyani Tupkary

Products are never neutral. They are always influenced by the thoughts and beliefs of the designers, engineers, and corporations who produce them. Politics of power is a set of power-strips that are openly designed to look, behave and experience the hidden ideologies in everyday products.

But while nature may mete out time’s passage in these horological devices, it takes human observation of the heavens to set them. Even the most precise atomic clock must be periodically tweaked to account for variations in the earth’s rotation. Some clocks, however, are tuned more directly to nature.

This is a world in which time is not fluid, parting to make way for events. Instead, time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. Every action, every thought, every breath of wind, every flight of birds is completely determined, forever… In a world of fixed future, life is