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Trying to think of a name X for the 'before' state of atemporality. X = global consensus clock-time culture <1980 atemporality = 1980s-2015s increasing anomic uncertainty Multitemporality = post-great-weirding time culture, where everybody gets a subjective time zone
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Candidates so far, none of which is entirely satisfactory Monotemporality Unitemporality Canonicity Peak Clock Clocksensus (global consensus based on clocks)
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Connotations I want to get at: global consensus, chronos > kairos (ie objective measured time over subjective sense of time, externalized), maximal synchronization/coherence. Synchronicity kinda gets at it, but is too strong. That's synchronization to the point of serendipity.
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Found a visual metaphor for ‘subjective time zones’ — on the new Boeing Dreamliners, anyone with a window seat gets to choose what time of day it should feel like in their row You get a mix of dawn, dusk, night, day, depending on how people want to calibrate their body clocks
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artistically presaged by 80s rap lyrics endlessly going on about "what time is it...?" - my theory has long been that the artist senses things boiling up in the zeitgeist long before it is even expressed by the "avant garde" there
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