Well...happy new year Gio. Here's to hoping its a better one! You'll probably be missed on BTR far more than you know, my friend.
Thing about time: I haven't read Scent of Time (My only BCH books are Burnout Society and Psychopolitics), but it sounds like McLuhan has something similar to say in Understanding Media. According to him, it is precisely by dividing time into segments and aliquots that has created the impression of it "passing", and passing faster all the time. Accord to M McL, the premoderns saw time as intrinsic to objects and to seasons/events. Everything had its own, intrinsic time. In modernity, time is merely a framework in which things occur. It's always interesting to see how our view of time affects its "passing".
Looking forward to reading your book when you put it out.
You actually got me into Byung-Chul Han, who I've really loved ever since. Thanks!
Well...happy new year Gio. Here's to hoping its a better one! You'll probably be missed on BTR far more than you know, my friend.
Thing about time: I haven't read Scent of Time (My only BCH books are Burnout Society and Psychopolitics), but it sounds like McLuhan has something similar to say in Understanding Media. According to him, it is precisely by dividing time into segments and aliquots that has created the impression of it "passing", and passing faster all the time. Accord to M McL, the premoderns saw time as intrinsic to objects and to seasons/events. Everything had its own, intrinsic time. In modernity, time is merely a framework in which things occur. It's always interesting to see how our view of time affects its "passing".
Best wishes for the new year!