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Judy Wajcman

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Judy Wajcman is Professor of Sociology at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University and a Centennial Professor in the Gender Institute and Sociology, London School of Economics.

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1950-12-12
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Australia
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Australian National University

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I didn’t care for Pressed for Time. The reasons for this are a) it’s a sociology book and sociological language obfuscates a point beyond all layperson understanding; b) it has a few good points to say but can’t say them effectively. I guess that’s really the same reason.

Wajcman notes the invention of the telegraph as the first time information can travel faster than humans, which is a fascinating distinction. Past this point (and somewhat before this point) technology is generally defined as an innovation that makes an action faster. A train gets you to San Francisco faster than horses and trains demand a consolidation of time. You have to be on the platform at 8:19, or at least by the time the train departs at 8:21, or you won’t be going to San Francisco today.

I wish Wajcman would have delved more into a historical understanding of time. I can imagine that ancient peoples may have understood time as cyclical—stuff like “spring comes every year”. Day follows night, the moon waxes and wanes every 28 days, there is a time for planting and a time for harvesting. We tend to forget a lot of this stuff, especially in our unusual year where our typical delineations of time don’t apply.

The other thing I wish Wajcman had touched on more was what the acceleration of time is doing to our brains. In chapter 4, she details a study about time spent on “episodes” during a workday—essentially, time spent focusing on a single thing. 90% of these are 10 minutes or less. I’d like to read a Walter Ong-like book about the human capacity for concentration and focus in our modern era. It’s far more difficult than writing and orality, but worthy of discussion, I think. In everything from the four-minute segments of Sesame Street to the 30-second read of a tweet, our minds are constantly encouraged—if not demanded—to shift focus to something else. It becomes hard to sit down and focus on a book for an hour at a time.
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gideonslife | Jan 5, 2023 |
Quello che mi ha colpito di questo libro molto interessante sul tempo è il fatto che l'autrice non fa nessuna menzione di quello che scrisse Sant'Agostino su questo argomento. Mi rendo conto che quelli erano altri tempi, è il caso di dire. Ma se non si comincia a considerare questa realtà partendo dalla percezione personale che l'uomo ha del tempo, non si potrà in alcun modo capire cos'è. Tutti, in un modo o l'altro, crediamo di sapere cos'è, con o senza orologi,ma quando vogliamo descriverlo, restiamo senza parole. Per quanto mi riguarda posso dire che il tempo non esiste. Mi spiego: fin quando esisterò io, come essere vivente e pensante, so che esiste. Quando non ci sarò più, anche lui finirà con me.… (meer)
 
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sfj2 | 1 andere bespreking | Jun 11, 2022 |
"La tecnología debe entenderse como parte del tejido social que asegura la cohesión de la sociedad; nunca es meramente técnica ni social. Antes bien, la tecnología siempre es un producto sociomaterial-una telaraña o red sin costuras que combina artefactos, personas, organizaciones, significados culturales y conocimiento. Por consiguiente, el cambio tecnológico es un proceso contingente y heterogéneo en el que tecnología y osicedad se constituyen mutuamente" p- 161
 
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MRMP | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 9, 2021 |

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