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THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
Volume 23, Issue 2-3, Pages 119-126Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0263276406063779
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time transcendence; time tracking; time transformation; time trading; time traversal
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The article argues that the relationship to time is at the root of what makes us human and that culture arises with and from efforts to transcend death, change and the rhythmicity of the physical environment. Time can be tracked through systems of time measurement and later transformed from a process of nature into clock time, a time to human design that is abstracted from context and content. In this form time can be traced with all other times. With contemporary science and new information and communications technologies, which operate in a new all-encompassing temporal spectrum that extends from nanoseconds to millennia, clock time is no longer appropriate to the associated present-oriented transactions and futures are traversed in the dual sense of the word. By historically locating temporal relations, the article provides both a new understanding of socio-cultural relations and a perspective on social change.
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