Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John Durham Peters, Lewis Mumford, Labour Power
15 Mar 2018
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Whoever sets the time controls the society. (john durham peters) Time and technology and their relationship; what it means to live in 24/7. 200 years ago clock was key machine of industrial age and remains key in post industrial one. Perfect timing important; in every phase of development no other device so ubiquitous all of us wear one an have access to one. All machines in our world almost none have been as powerful as the clock, its one of the essential medium of the world it organizes our lives. Source of its power insures even flow of every, goods and people through time. Standardizes how we think about time; move through and experience it. All of us in order to function in society must always know what time it is. This rule extends machines bc standardization of time essential to regulation machines to other systems.
