The Spatialization of Metric Time
| Autor: | Dan Thu Nguyen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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| Zdroj: | Time & Society. 1:29-50 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7463 0961-463X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0961463x92001001004 |
| Popis: | In this paper, I address the entrenchment of metric time in the West wherein clock time came to measure not only the surface of bodies but also the space of human activity. I trace two specific sets of practices which both reflected and propelled this increasing spatialization of time: the conquest and demarcation of territories and oceans in the first instance; and, in the second, labouring activities and the discipline of private life. The questions which this paper raises, finally, relate to the political and ethical configurations in such a temporal regime. |
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