Hartig did not flinch from the controversial implication of his results. They suggest, he observed, that what people need isn’t greater individual control over their schedules but rather what he calls “the social regulation of time”: greater outside pressure to use their time in particular ways. That means more willingness to fall in with the rhyth

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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

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Admittedly, it’s not entirely our own fault that we approach our finite time in such a perversely instrumental and future-focused way. Powerful external pressures push us in this direction, too, because we exist inside an economic system that is instrumentalist to its core. One way of understanding capitalism, in fact, is as a giant machine for ins... See more

“If standardized time was a fiction more or less driven by capitalism,” writes D’Erasmo, “it might be possible that [internet] atemporality is a fiction more or less driven by capitalism as well.”