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How Analog Clocks Can Give Us More by Giving Us Less (Published 2020)
le concept moderne de temps s’est développé avec le consumérisme. Auparavant, avant que quiconque ne songe à organiser et à standardiser le travail, les cloches étaient utilisées dans les monastères pour structurer le cours journalier des prières, des études et du jardinage. Les cloches ont été utilisées plus tard en Europe occidentale pour annonce
... See moreTom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être libre: Dans un monde absurde (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)
South Korean-German philosopher Byung-Chul Han has developed a useful approach to think about different ways of spending and thinking about time online. Han outlines 3 distinct understandings of time: mythical time, historical time and atomised time.
Mythical time
For Han, mythical time is a time that is full of meaning that transcends the present m... See more
Mythical time
For Han, mythical time is a time that is full of meaning that transcends the present m... See more
Stripe Partners • This month's Frame: Byung–Chul Han on how meaning makes time less fleeting
"Long ago, before the Great Clock, time was measured by changes in heavenly bodies: the slow sweep of stars across the night sky, the arc of the sun and variation in light, the waxing and waning of the moon, tides, seasons. Time was measured also by heartbeats, the rhythms of drowsiness and sleep, the recurrence of hunger, the menstrual cycles of w... See more
The Marginalian • Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to the Anxiety of Aliveness – The Marginalian
BEFORE WE HAVE clocks we experience time as fluid, mercurial, and inconstant.