How do technologies change time?
Shared by ALEXIS PEIRCE CAUDELL
How do technologies change time? While observing families at a lake I wonder how technologies twist, kink, compress, and extend time. From a body propelled by motorized unicycle across the dam, to the rhythm of an arm as it languidly casts a fishing line into the water. Each technology seems to afford a different temporal experience of the lake and its ecosystem. Ring tones emanating from digital devices cut short the time spent by children at the water’s edge, dragging them reluctantly back to waiting families. And the mere act of coming to the lake is for some, an opportunity to step outside of what Stewart (2007) describes as ordinary time. Still others send selfies from the top of the dam to social media timelines, where the images become agents of time, moments to be recalled and storied for far longer than the fleeting seconds it took to capture them.
References
Stewart, K. (2007). Ordinary affects. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press
