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Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline
The form of narrative addresses the human need to live in time, to express ‘historicality’, which refers to the urge to reach back into our past to change our future and see our life as a whole. Historicality, for Ricoeur, is the way we grasp our most basic potentialities as individuals and collectives by repetition or recollection that guides or s
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Historians call this way of living “task orientation,” because the rhythms of life emerge organically from the tasks themselves, rather than from being lined up against an abstract timeline, the approach that has become second nature for us today.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The account of the emergence in Europe of linear history and its epistemic condition, homogeneous and empty time-space, is a familiar one that I will briefly summarize below. My goal is not to dispute this account but to grasp: (1) what were the conditions in which this linear vision became institutionalized and hegemonic and (2) how linearity came
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HOW TO MANAGE CHRONOLOGY