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At that moment I asked myself, what would a mobile culture do about maintaining their songlines, their memory trails, their set of sacred memory locations across the landscape when they settled down? They could not afford to lose the knowledge but they were no longer travelling the wider landscape. It seemed immediately obvious that a circle of sto
... See moreLynne Kelly • The Memory Code: The traditional Aboriginal memory technique that unlocks the secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and ancient monuments the world over
The de-centralization of timekeeping brought about by digital media harkens back to a much older style of measuring time. Before the invention of the telegraph, there was no way to instantaneously synchronize timekeeping devices across long distances. No time zones, no universal standard against which clock towers could be evaluated for accuracy. T... See more
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
But the worse touristification is the life we moderns have to lead in captivity, during our leisure hours: Friday night opera, scheduled parties, scheduled laughs. Again, golden jail.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
The body is now presumed to have more in common with the segmented clock face — which at least approximated natural rhythms, even if it locked them into a standard compatible with the needs of capital — than it does with the “vapor” of internet time.
Lauren Collee • Temporal Belonging
the readying of things over the readying of people.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
“The existence of a public realm,” Arendt observed, “and the world's subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence.”
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
an island of special existence within the stream of time.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
the holy days of Purim, Hanukkah, and Tisha B’Av.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
Whereas stories and storytellingly thrive only when people pre-serve an appreciation for the past and the future, postmodernity, with the decline of the myth of progress, has lost a sense of history and is fixated on the present. The past becomes merely a theme park to visit occasionally for entertainment, and the future is reduced to being a momen... See more