Cyberspace Time and Infertility Thoughts on Social Time and the Environment  

Oleh:

Menzies, Heather

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Time & Society vol. 9 no. 1 (Mar. 2000), page 75–89.
Topik: asychronization; karoushi; McLuhan; reproductive time; social time; technological time; temporality; virtuality
Fulltext: 75TAS91.pdf (64.13KB)

Isi artikel

This essay uses a personal experience of infertility as a metaphor for a deepening societal alienation, as work and other social activities are increasingly disembodied from grounded, face to- face contexts into asynchronous bit-actions, the tempo of which is driven by the lightning speed of global digital communication. A history of modern and even postmodern time and its social-conditioning effects, the discourse on technological change (and attendant objective, disembodying language), and new reproductive technologies are discussed, as are possible ways of recovering a sense of time as experience and human memory, and applying this to a renewed social science of implicated participation.

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