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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You're getting at something that makes me curious about a good term as well. Would you take it back to pre-radio?
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I'm not sure a past global consensus as opposed to a current lack of it is really an applicable distinction. Different clock times in different towns were an issue even at the advent of passenger rail.
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Yep. The transition happened slowly over 2 centuries but was finished between 1840 and 1894. The previous condition was geographically disconnected/unsynchronized temporality so a meaningful global condition mostly did not exist to talk about.pic.twitter.com/RvW0x2axev
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