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Life Beyond the Clock with Jenny Odell

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The Thingification of Time

The idea of measuring time and being very precise about time is not something that's that new. European monasteries were using time measurement to increase basically their economic productivity, right? So where does this come from? And why is that problematic or how does that manifest as challenges of our time or contribute to our suffering human and planetary wise? I really felt that part of saving time was a real meditation on time as a concept of historically and across place and time and culture.

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