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The History of Timekeeping (Radio Edit)
You're Dead to Me
The Politics of Time
In 1894, a young French anarchist called Marshal Boudin blew himself up outside the Greenwich Royal Observatory. He wanted to resist what he thought was the tyranny of centralized control and hierarchical order by symbolically and physically stopping the clock that made it all work. Throughout history, people have fought back against the tyranny of the clock. In 1970, a clock was buried under a park in Osaka that will run for 5,000 years in a time capsule. There's a mechanical pendulum clock being built in Texas right now that's going to run for 10,000 years. And they're all helping us resist that sense of hurry sickness - although probably not doing us much good.
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