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A Minor History of / Time Without Clocks
Clocks are mechanical media that transform tasks and create new work and wealth by accelerating the pace of human association. By coordinating and accelerating human meetings and goings-on, clocks increase the sheer quantity of human exchange.
Marshall McLuhan, 1961.
While tempo and timing are crucial and contextually unique in living processes, the tempo and timing of clock-time are pre-set by the designer. Here, variation in tempo and timing would mean a malfunction of the clock.
Valerie Bryson • Time On Our Side: Why We All Need A Shorter Working Week
Before that, people measured time with sundials—so at night, when the sun was no longer in the sky, we stopped measuring. We moved instead into a timeless time, the dark hour of the moon and tides and the rhythm of dreaming.