How do we spend our time? Why are we interested in knowing what time it is at a specific moment? To find out how much time is left …. how long we’ve been doing something…, how much time has passed since….etc. We use time as a way of making our schedule more precise. Yet it is another subdivision to organise ourselves.
Different kinds of time are marked out in today’s society ….”society’s” time is generally understood as the passing of every 24 hours, and “personal” time as your own organisation of the day: work and rest, what you enjoy doing and what you don’t. In the future people will behave in a more “individual” way; human beings are now becoming wrapped up in themselves, due to the new ways of living and organising work. You don’t have to follow the rhythm of society. There will be a much greater disposition to organise your time in relation to society’s time, to make the most of the day.
Measured time, apart from being a way of organising human activities, admits many other perceptions and sensations. Very often we change time, moving the hands of the clock, in order to see it in a specific way, and even when we are aware of the change, we still feel that time is short. We generally feel that the things we most enjoy pass by more quickly and that, in contrast, the things we don’t enjoy pass by more slowly. Even if time is a single element, through the senses, our perception of it may change. |
Time is all over the entire surface of one’s watch. Time is a representation which is seen as something sequential and cyclical, but in this case, it is represented as a linear passing, the idea of the heterogeneity and irreversibility of what happens, contained within time, is made stronger. Time runs across the perimeter of one’s wrist, crossing a line of interpretation which marks the “here and now”, a point from which we see what is coming, and what has passed. There is no significant division; a thin line shows the vanishing of the past and the near future which begins to hypnotise us.
Personal time overlapping society’s time. Over and above the standard division of society’s time, the individuality of human beings sets down the rules. The divisions of time are the grid upon which the limits of our different personal activities are built each day, the way we want; stretchable, shrinkable, to suit our wishes, our activities, our challenges.
Time with no restrictions. Leaving batteries aside and taking advantage of a permanent proximity to electronic devices, watches go by themselves, stealing the energy they need. Activity in a globalized world, today from here, tomorrow from any other place, demands time to be automatically updated, the perfect synchronisation of society’s time.
...the sun is the temporal reference point and the shadow projected, the differentiating nature, the reflection of the nature of each individual... |
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