Jane Carroll argues that Jules Verne’s famous book Around the World in 80 Days is set in an era when the natural calendar was being superseded by an artificial time, the latter being conditioned by engineering and other technological developments. Like… Read More ›
Teresa Brennan separates the social time of labour and production, from the natural reproductive time. Social time is furthermore characterised as artificial time, when as the speed of the acquisition of money (capital) it diminishes or degrades natural reproductive cycles…. Read More ›
Raymond Monelle observes the belief that there are simultaneously plural cultural temporalities, of which music temporalities are examples. This is distinguished from the impression of natural time, as a flow that is uniform and singular. One could hardly exaggerate the… Read More ›
Jawaharlal Nehru states regarding recording the birth of a child that the time that humans construct during periods of war is artificially separated from solar time. This separation occurs because human, war time, is abstracted and ahead of solar time…. Read More ›
James Greer argues that given the pervasiveness of time-technologies, primarily involving the clock, humans have domesticated and artificialised time. The result is that increasingly, natural time becomes absent. In a music recording studio, just like in a Las Vegas casino,… Read More ›
Luke Mastin states that a temporal illusion is where our internal clock changes speed. This distorts or misconceives the time that occurs naturally in the world. A temporal illusion is a distortion in the perception of time that occurs for various reasons,… Read More ›
James Gleick posits that the world should remove its various time zones, given the confusions they cause. Instead, it is argued that our timings should reflect how our biological clocks obey solar movements, a permanence that is in contradistinction to… Read More ›
