The Tyranny of Clocks: "The Clock represents an element of mechanical tyranny in the lives of modern men more potent than any individual exploiter or any other machine." http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/woodcock/sp001734.html
For me, managerial focus on a single marker, such as time, is an indicator of incompetence or inconsequential work at best. Any work where output scales linearly with time is ripe for automation.
yeah - boo clocks. dislike. no chill with the clock
Reminds me of Mumford's Technics and Civilization "We effectively became “time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers” with the invention of the clock. The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age"
There are alternatives to modern day-to-day timekeeping. My favorite one is circa.solar
I feel this so much I want to wake, eat, and sleep when my body tells me it wants to
A Measure of Sacrifice https://nakamotoinstitute.org/a-measure-of-sacrifice/
This is a very Arendtian observation — clocks as one of the most pervasive ways that we have mathematicized and technicalized nature. I’m surprised I haven’t seen her mention this somewhere actually. Nice piece!
