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"machine-time reminds me of Sartre's analysis in Critique of Dialectical Reason about people working <br>
on assembly line"<br>
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For sure, and I remember Sarah Cook citing in the discussion for <a href="https://www.somersethouseshop.com/products/24-7-exhibition-catalogue">24/7: A Wake-up Call For Our Non-stop World</a> at Somerset house that Facebook had an internal document discussing sleep as the platform's chief challenge to growth, In a way, this is the end goal of the attention economy - 24/7 attention, where our time is no longer our own, and all affect is harvested as capital by the infoindustrial complex.<br>
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however, Alan also note the other flow facilitated by technology, like when we communicate through whatsapp on demand.<br>
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I think the issue might be agency an d volition in submitting to the affective flow state or having it imposed upon us.
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<span>On Wed, 19 May 2021 22:00:57 -0400, Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> wrote:</span><br>
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Hi, just wanted to say I quite like this and machine-time reminds me of<br>
Sartre's analysis in Critique of Dialectical Reason about people working<br>
on assembly lines - I forget the exact quote, but it's something like<br>
"It's the machine in them that did the dreaming." That resonates; machine<br>
time, AI, and the like are internally timeless in a sense, even with the<br>
calculations measured, and program breakdowns, ransoms which suspend<br>
program time, or one program time for another, and so forth. So when you<br>
write about<br>
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" collaborating with our six year old son to make and edit songs<br>
in GarageBand. We lose track of time. We make our own fun. That flow is<br>
between us, "<br>
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I think of the flow among bodies and all the "messiness" of human life,<br>
and that's a kind of epiphany in a sense -<br>
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Best Alan<br>
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On Wed, 19 May 2021, Rebecca Rouse wrote:<br>
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> Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 20:41:12 +0000<br>
> From: Rebecca Rouse <rebecca.rouse@his.se><br>
> To: "empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au" <empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au><br>
> Subject: [-empyre-] Thinking about Flow and Real-Time in Pandemic-Time:<br>
> Twitter, GarageBand, and Pianos<br>
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