The clock, not the steam engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age. (Lewis Mumford)
During the Paris Commune, in all corners of the city … there were people shooting at the clocks … (Walter Benjamin)
Just like the clocks, the debate about clock-time is going forward and back, forward and back. See [...]
We’re in the midst of two enormous news stories.
First the London burning story: three nights of rioting (and counting) in the capital, spreading from borough to borough and, now, to other cities (Birmingham). What a finance type might describe as a serious case of contagion.
Second, financial meltdown 2. Plummeting share [...]
In the news today is the discovery of a tape recording of the 1970 Kent State Massacre. It reveals that the National Guard troopers who shot four students dead were ordered to open fire. This is important because it shows a degree of deliberation in the massacre. The story kept to at [...]
