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Clock time or rock time?

lifeboat • 19 implied HN points • 03 May 23
📖 Philosophy Time
  1. Time is weirder than we think, with deep connections to the past and future.
  2. Different cultures have different ways of understanding time, like the concepts of Chronos and Kairos.
  3. Changing how we perceive time can shift our sense of agency and possibility, moving us from despair to action.

P.S. The Likeness - Gizem Vural : Edweard Muybridge

On Looking • 39 implied HN points • 02 Sep 22
🎨 Art & Illustration Time
  1. The illustration 'The Likeness' by Gizem Vural is paired with a series of photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, showing the interconnectedness of different art forms and their exploration of perception.
  2. Both Vural's illustration and Muybridge's photographs capture moments that challenge our perception of time, demonstrating how visual art can manipulate time and space in unique ways.
  3. The juxtaposition of a static butterfly in Vural's illustration against the dynamic grid conveys the impact of human development on nature, showcasing how artists can push the limits of medium to convey powerful messages.

The Bones of Time

Breaking Smart • 83 implied HN points • 11 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Time
  1. Protocols display preternatural stability and predictability through time.
  2. Broken protocols lead to disruptions in social norms and routines.
  3. Understanding history is shaped by the enduring protocols defining social realities.
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Time, Culture & The Digital Age

The Digital Anthropologist • 19 implied HN points • 27 Jan 23
🎭️ Culture Time
  1. Humans and technology have always evolved together, impacting how we perceive and manage time.
  2. Historically, time management shifted with industrialization, affecting societal structures and workers' demands for fair hours and wages.
  3. In the Digital Age, time has become an economic unit tied to productivity, influencing work dynamics, laws about after-hours communication, and the rise of time-saving technologies like AI assistants.

Sunday Snippets #2

Aliveness Studies • 3 implied HN points • 26 Mar 23
📖 Philosophy Time
  1. Desire and longing can be cherished as sensations in themselves, independent of the object being desired.
  2. Don't wait for permission to pursue your goals and dreams; time is finite and waiting only delays progress.
  3. Life is short and unpredictable, so value and make time for the important people in your life.

Whose Time? Which Temporality?

The Convivial Society • 3 HN points • 14 Mar 23
📖 Philosophy Time
  1. Transitioning from natural light to darkness can have a calming effect on our bodies and reduce stress levels.
  2. Precision time-keeping in society has led to a loss of gradual transitions and a shift towards arbitrary rhythms.
  3. Digital culture lacks discernible temporal rhythms, contributing to social disorders, and inhibiting communal and public time.

What Is High Art?

Outlandish Claims • 0 implied HN points • 08 Jul 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Time
  1. Quality in art can be subjective and influenced by factors like popularity, originality, and cultural context.
  2. Works of art can degrade with age as language and tropes shift, impacting their appeal.
  3. Art categories like classics, pop, high art, and more exist, each with its own characteristics and nuances.

Human Timelines Should Be Log Scale

Outlandish Claims • 0 implied HN points • 29 May 24
🔬 Science Time
  1. Human timelines should be represented on a log scale to reflect exponential population growth and changing human experiences over time.
  2. Our intuition about historical events can be misleading, and measuring time in person-years can be awkward and imprecise.
  3. Plotting time on a log scale can help visualize history more accurately and prepare us for potential challenges in the future, like understanding time in different relativistic reference frames.

'Making a Handaxe': a knot in time.

lifeboat • 0 implied HN points • 26 Apr 23
🎨 Art & Illustration Time
  1. Archaeology can be a creative and imaginative practice that involves physical and practical work.
  2. Objects like handaxes hold secrets of their making, usage, and the passage of time, providing a meditation on time.
  3. Engravings of artifacts can capture the intelligence of the hand and communicate the process and skill involved in crafting the objects.

Abstract paths

do clouds feel vertigo? • 0 implied HN points • 11 Jan 24
📖 Philosophy Time
  1. Abstractions, like time and money, help us connect different stories and experiences. They give us a way to understand and compare things in our lives.
  2. Fungible measurements, or quanta, are tools that allow us to compare different items, like the price of a house and tuna. They show that all things can be understood in similar ways.
  3. Using units of measurement helps compare experiences across cultures and stories, like relating a day in Harry Potter to a day in the Bible. This shows how universal these concepts are.

Passages of Time

Homo Ludens • 0 implied HN points • 03 May 24
🎭️ Culture Time
  1. Our concept of time is a cultural construct, influenced by abstract measurements like clocks, which vary across different cultures.
  2. The development of abstract time in the West was linked to the rise of capitalism, leading to a disconnect from natural, cosmic time.
  3. Time plays a crucial role in societies, guiding activities like planting crops, religious rituals, and even warfare, reflecting differing cultural perceptions of time's passage.