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he observed, that what people need isn’t greater individual control over their schedules but rather what he calls ‘the social regulation of time’: greater outside pressure to use their time in particular ways. That means more willingness to fall in with the rhythms of community; more traditions like the Sabbath of decades past, or the French

Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks

In Han’s analysis, things and the spheres in which they exist, quite separate from our own when they wish to be, are enriching, but they can also be perilous. I suggest that his thinking aligns well with the original significance of faërie , defined as “the mythworld itself, which is everything outside of our control. Faërie is an old name for the... See more

The things that tether us to Earth - A review of Byung-Chul Han’s Non-things

Instead of building rooted, meaningful communities what we have is a worldwide eternal mosh pit. You can log out any time you like — but you can never leave.

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We are, I think, for reasons that are not altogether clear to me, standing sentinel because we are encountering not a treasure in quite the same sense that Arendt suggests here, but something like its distant echo—the rumor of a mode of life we’ve forgotten or been denied.

L. M. Sacasas • Laughter In Dark Times

My favorite Hebrew novel of all time, A. B. Yehoshua’s 1989 masterpiece Mr. Mani, is a fantastically inventive story that moves backwards in time through six generations of a Jerusalem family while tracing the family’s recurring suicidal gene—until you get to the end, which is really the beginning, when the enduring mystery of the family’s

Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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"Today, time lacks a solid structure. It is not a house but an erratic stream. It disintegrates into a mere sequence of point-like presences; it rushes off. There is nothing to provide time with any hold [Halt]. Time that rushes off is not habitable. Rituals stabilize life." -BCH

A Time to Keep

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This may explain my interest in the Clock/Library project—the Clock is the outside frame of reference; the Library is the backup.

Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility

La desaparición de los rituales: Una topología del presente (Pensamiento Herder nº 0) (Spanish Edition)

Byung-Chul Han

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By filming the park, Asya hopes to “capture the slow and leisurely rot of a day.”