Kalyani Tupkary

Pemmaraju’s story urges us to consider the occasional senses of temporal dislocation that we all experience from time to time—instances of timecode drift within our consciousness, small insurgencies of slave clocks against a tyrannical master clock.

From the Near Future Laboratory, the definitive book describing in accessible and vivid detail the origins, evolution, and practice of design fiction: “ the practice of creating tangible and evocative prototypes from possible near futures, to help discover and represent the consequences of decision making.”

our biology is tethered to the sun, yet the clocks society uses to keep time are influenced by a tangled web of political and historical factors.