Kalyani Tupkary

We live with these realities because they make the rest of our lives feel manageable. But time did not have to be arranged that way. We have  imagined  time, at least in Western countries, as subservient to commerce, and attempted to export or forcibly impose that understanding worldwide.

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

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.

The widespread adoption of the ‘desktop’ metaphor underscored that early personal computers would become workplace technologies.