This month's Frame: Byung–Chul Han on how meaning makes time less fleeting
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This month's Frame: Byung–Chul Han on how meaning makes time less fleeting
This thick immanence is compensated for by the shifting present, always confronted by the new. We can concede to the immanent frame, and the lack of transcendence, because the present has been compressed, making it short. We’re distracted in the present from the flatness of our lives, without transcendence, by the fact that our social lives are so
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“I want to think about time in a shared way,” Odell said. “What becomes possible collectively when you remove the grid, and stop thinking about it as little bits of time currency in each individual person’s time bank, and that all you can do is hoard it.”
New York Times • Time Has Been Codified and Commodified. Jenny Odell Wants to Set It Free
You could say the same thing is happening on a much larger scale in our culture. There’s a multitude of familiar factors pushing us all into different histories, from misinformation to identity politics, and as a country, there is less and less of a singular timeline that the majority of us can agree on.
But a second,... See more
Look at how we’ve changed the capturing of the passing of time. Before we rewired our brains to connect personal with commercial, down time as wasted opportunity, we used to talk about our accomplishments as memories. We remember the marathon we ran, the little moments that made that day feel so significant. That marathon included training, but we ... See more