Techniques for Influencing Time

[Clinamenic]

Gonna watch this too:

Have you watched any of those Robert Sapolsky talks I'm always raving about? His Human Behavioral Biology lecture series at Stanford is still the best course I've watched.

 

[sus]

Yes! I did, watched the whole series summer of 2018

 

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Virilio talks about losing the battle on the barricades (in space) so taking the fight to time (going on strike).

 

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Mélenchon says he's going to nationalise it:

The economic model we defend seeks to harmonise the rhythms of production and nature. We are going to nationalise time, an invisible raw material. This nationalisation is what we call ecological planning.

 

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I'm convinced the internet is such an advanced time-wasting technology that it's now possible to waste 25 or even 30 hours in a single day.

 

[Murphy]

Seasonal change can throw any physiological clock. Not manually re-setting clocks, more the reduction in daylight but only a month to the shortest day. It’s the mornings not the evenings as clocks switch - walking home from work as it’s still dark, last of the milk floats humming round, traffic slowly breaking into long lines of insectoid eyes snaking up to traffic lights at key routes

Time for a new calendar?

Expect Elon to conjure alternatives afresh from the digital machine gods as ‘hardcore’ maximisation focuses on US employment data sets, annual leave patterns, productivity, maybe fucking off Thanksgiving and/or Christmas Day, team building sessions offset by lunch perks, 24 hour D.O.G.E shifts (lightweights) billed as Patriotic Acts of Self Sacrifice ..

One aspect to retirement my Mum brought up recently was Fridays losing their Fridayness, its internal measure of being off the clock for long enough so the previous working days lose their unique differential qualities