Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
January 5, 2024
André Dombrowski— Even an instant demands to measured. Anything but stable and discrete, an instant is never as long as a second, certainly not a minute; it is shorter than… READ MORE
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Clocks, Calendars, and Schedules
April 10, 2023
David M. Henkin— In the ever-changing world of white-collar labor, it is the small touches that signal dystopia. Much of the enduring resonance of Mike Judge’s 1999 classic comedy film… READ MORE
Slow Motion
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Barry Perlus— Those in the Northern Hemisphere who have recently stepped outside just after nightfall to view Comet Neowise know that the window of time in which to view this… READ MORE
“Hunker” Is a Verb
May 4, 2020
Bill Vitek— As a philosopher and educator, and currently without students or courses to teach, I ponder and write about this moment with my stock-and-trade academic training, but also as… READ MORE
Our Altered Sense of Time in a Bewildering Pandemic
April 15, 2020
Joseph Mazur— Our real world is now a setting that was once just a fantasy in the minds of futurist science fiction writers. For decades it was an inevitable scene… READ MORE
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