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Objects of Time

Part of the Culture, Mind, and Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137017895

ISBN: 978-1-137-01788-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 7, 2015

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The Material Invention of Time

Birth, Kevin K.

Pages: 1 –33

[Times have changed. I remember when I was young, whenever we changed back and forth between daylight saving time and standard time, some people would forget to change their clocks and would arrive at church at the wrong time. Now, on the Sunday morning after the time change, I sleepily gaze at...
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A Necromantic Device, or How Clocks Think

Birth, Kevin K.

Pages: 35 –69

[Clocks and calendars are necromantic devices—tools by which the dead think for the living, and the dead’s thoughts deflect the living’s attention from the cycles in the present. This is a consequence of the mediation of cognition by artifacts, and it is a feature of how artifacts can distribute...
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Calendrical Uniformity versus Planned Uncanniness

Birth, Kevin K.

Pages: 71 –98

[Walpole writes of the legendary Glastonbury thorn not cooperating with Great Britain’s adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752. According to legend, this hawthorn grew from a staff brought to England by Joseph of Arimathea—the owner of the tomb in which Jesus’ body was placed. The thorn...
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Polyrhythmic Temporalities (Confounding the Artifacts)

Birth, Kevin K.

Pages: 99 –119

[By now it should be apparent that the clock and the Gregorian calendar are culturally conceived tools that direct thought about time. With the expansion of European influence, they have become global. This chapter examines their coexistence with other forms of conceptualizing time to demonstrate...
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Globeness: Time and the Embodied, Biological Consequences of Globalization

Birth, Kevin K.

Pages: 121 –153

[The objects of time associated with modernity channel thought toward a distinctive temporality and the following features: uniform, homogeneous, and empty time; a combination of the cognitive processes of measuring duration with determining moments in time; and a mediation by the artifacts that...
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Creeping Cognitive Homochronicity and the End of the Time of Earth

Birth, Kevin K.

Pages: 155 –171

[In the past, major changes to systems of time reckoning were noted. Now, objects of time so powerfully mediate cognition and obscure the logics of time that fundamental changes to how time is defined go unnoticed.]

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