Apr 27, 2020
Essential workers are experiencing a speed-up as demand for
their services increases, while millions stay home— as their own
sense of time, and the separation between "life" and "work," blurs.
How is it that we came to be ruled by clocks, and how did people
experience time prior to industrial capitalism? Team Advantage
explores the phenomenon of capitalist time-discipline, consulting
E. P. Thompson, Moishe Postone, and Mark Fisher (among others) as
resources.
Thanks to our central Canadian correspondent Brendan (@Neeedleseye)
for joining us!
Sources for this episode:
E. P. Thompson, "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial
Capitalism"
Moishe Postone, "Time, Labor, and Social
Domination"
Mark Fisher, "Cybertime Crisis Lecture"
(YouTube)
Ivor Southwood, "Non-Stop Inertia"
Barbara Ehrenreich, "Bait and Switch"
Daniel Greene and Daniel Joseph, "The Digital Spatial
Fix"
Jonathan Crary, "24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep"