Kalyani Tupkary

The semantic system of graphical relations The graphical expression of semantic relations

You make it (somewhat) arbitrary. Divide the world into 24 time zones, and  slowly force people  — often through colonial might — to abide by one, standard time for an entire wedge. Do it in the name of commerce, of travel, of ease of communication, of  ease . Fast-forward a century and a half, and this rational/irrational time is just the way

Time isn’t like the other senses, Eagleman says. Sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing are relatively easy to isolate in the brain. They have discrete functions that rarely overlap: it’s hard to describe the taste of a sound, the color of a smell, or the scent of a feeling. … But a sense of time is threaded through everything we perceive. 

The development that really established the seven-day week as insurmountable, Henkin contends, came in the middle of the twentieth century: the television schedule.

There's a history of clumsily trying to conceal infrastructure that goes way further back than cellphone towers.