Control and Consciousness of Time Web
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Control and Consciousness of Time Web
Clocks give you the illusion of control. You think the day is composed of fungible units, and you think you can plan ahead and make a schedule that works and feels right, but it ignores how each day unfolds in a unique way and you won’t best know how to exist in time other than in any given moment.
That linear time is a method of colonial control is perhaps the greatest lesson to be learned in the fight to undo the horrors of capitalism. Before imperialists descended on the United States, there were no clocks. No second hands tick tick ticking our lives away. These are constructions that whiteness created to ensure our lives were ruled by the... See more
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