Avoir le temps – Pascal Chabot (2021)
Especially since the widespread use of smartphones and social media, life feels extremely fast. Notifications from all kind of apps take over our phone screen,...
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Tag: mechanical clock
Escaping time
June 24, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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I didn't expect my thinking about the possibility of escaping time. It's one of those age-old science-fiction dreams that people have. Time travel is perhaps...
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Austerlitz’s time
January 11, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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What is Austerlitz's time, and where do I get this from? Well, I didn't expect my wanting to write a blog post about Jacques Austerlitz...
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The River Used to be a Man
October 19, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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It's been a while that I watched a good slow film. My head rarely thinks ouside Lav Diaz's films at the moment. I'm trying to...
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The Power of Time
June 17, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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People who prefer slowness in their lives argue that we're all slaves of the clock. Those who can't live without the constant rush of adrenaline...
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Part of the landscape
June 9, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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The invention and widespread use of the mechanical clock in the middle of the last millennium has not only changed our understanding of time. It...
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