What time is it? That such a bizarre question has become commonplace shows how thoroughly we have internalized the clock and accepted it as reality. It's hard to think of time in any way other than minutes and seconds, which has made us as a species incredibly productive (and a bit neurotic) over the last several centuries. In this episode, Ellen explores how this miraculous invention took hold of our minds, and how we might wriggle free.

References:

Technics and Civilization (1934) by Lewis Mumford

Revolution in Time (1983) by David S. Landes

The Relevance of the Beautiful (1977) by Hans-Georg Gadamer

Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104 (1895) by Antonín Dvořák

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