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Adam describes how modern efforts at time-control have undermined time-control: \u201cFor clock time to exist and thus to be measurable and controllable there has to be duration, an interval between two points in time. Without duration there is no before and after, no cause and effect, no stretch of time to be measured.\u201d <\/p>\n
With the development of transportation and communication technologies, intervals have been reduced to the vanishing point: <\/p>\n
\u201cThe control of time that has reached the limit of compression has been shifted into a time where notions of control are meaningless.\u201d In the electronic world, information is transferred and power is exercised from no-where (where is <\/em> the Internet?), in a state of perpetual simultaneity, a now-here, and the no-where and now-here have become interchangeable. The \u201cknowledge and modes of being\u201d demanded in this new world \u201care alien to the industrial way of life,\u201d organized by clock-time. <\/p>\n Adam sees analogies to \u201cthe realm of myths and mysticism,\u201d which may ofer \u201cmore appropriate ways of being in the realm of instantaneity.\u201d <\/p>\n This is very perceptive, and gets at key elements of the social reality sometimes described as post-modernity: In some ways, we\u2019re talking about hyper-modernity \u2013 speed and modern time-control carried to its extreme. But hyper-modernity undermines modernity \u2013 absolute speed is absolute stasis, since there is no interval between here and there, now and then. And once we approach absolute speed, we\u2019re losing control, since our time-piece has nothing left to measure. And this technologically-achieved hyper-modernity opens up interest in primitive mysticisms. <\/p>\n Vapor of vapors. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adam describes how modern efforts at time-control have undermined time-control: \u201cFor clock time to exist and thus to be measurable and controllable there has to be duration, an interval between two points in time. Without duration there is no before and after, no cause and effect, no stretch of time to be measured.\u201d With the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"yoast_head":"\n