Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John Durham Peters, Lewis Mumford, Catchphrase
20 Apr 2017
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Mit 2500 lecture 5: spectacle: whoever sets the time controls the society - john durham peters, clock is the key machine in the industrial and post industrial age. In a world without minutes, seconds, strategical time - how do we function, how do we tell time: no one who wants to be part of the modern world can defy the clock"s incessant beat. It is a prime symbol of modernity, of our foustain mortgage of ourselves to things we did not choose but will not give up. The clock helped integrate the world spatially, creating the grid necessary for global transportation and communication - john durham peters, Behind the vacuity of the catchphrase, 24/7 is a static redundancy that disavows its relation to the rhythmic and periodic textures of human life. It connotes an arbitray, uninflected schema of a week, extracted from any unfolding of variegated or cumulative experience.
