Kalyani T
@kalyanit
I like to objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani T
kalyanitupkary.com
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.
from The Tyranny of Time | NOEMA by noemamag.com
- A new initiative recognizes nature as an official artist on all major music streaming services with royalties going towards urgent conservation efforts.
from The Latest Artist To Join Spotify? Mother Nature | Atmos
A curious legal crusade to redefine personhood is raising profound questions about the interdependence of the animal and human kingdoms.
from The Elephant in the Courtroom by Lawrence-wright
No one has ever really been able to topple the seven-day week. French revolutionaries tried to institute a ten-day week. Bolsheviks aimed for a five-day week. No one tried harder than Miss Elisabeth Achelis, a New York socialite, heir to the American Hard Rubber Company fortune, and an admirer of Melvil Dewey, he of the Dewey decimal system and si
... See morefrom How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives by Jill Lepore
For most of recorded history, people have thought of people as the only ones that were someone. Well, they used to talk to Rocks, Rivers, and Trees, but they long forgot to do that ever since. This is a book about thinking about how the world is to all the someone’s that aren’t like you and I.
from writing. - Simone Rebaudengo by Simone Rebaudengo
What used to be specific events or activities, like answering emails, have gradually become ongoing processes . “Speeding up” a continuous process means to overclock, to intensify; it can’t ever mean to end or conclude
from Time Capsules — Real Life by Fuck Theory
it describes the journeys of A. Square [sic – ed.] , a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.
from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
Among many other factors, technology shifted productivity from a collectivist, nationalist pursuit to one that’s far more individualistic, but the underlying motivation is the same even if the medium has changed. The nepreryvka calendar is a great example of this. In the same way the calendar made it easier for people to mindlessly ease into their
... See morefrom A Failed Soviet Experiment Offers A Warning To Today’s Burnout Generation by Liz Stinson
I n eighty-five essays, contributors nominate “extinct” objects and address them in a series of short, vivid, sometimes personal accounts, speaking not only of obsolete technologies, but of other ways of thinking, making, and interacting with the world. Extinct is filled with curious, half-remembered objects, each one evoking a future t
... See morefrom Extinct by Miranda Critchley