Everyday Time and Life Time

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Most human beings are aware of living in a certain age, that life is a transitory phenomenon, and that time passes - slowly or quickly. Since the discovery of time, humanity has gained control over time as a dimension, but the question that needs to be posed is who exerts this control and how this relates to us as individuals. I wish to draw a distinction between `everyday time' as something relatively routine, or cyclical, and `life time' as a linearly experienced framework in which we seek biographical continuity and coherence. Making this distinction lays bare the culturally specific asynchrony between these two time frames, and the issue of who controls them. In capitalist modernity, the battle for control over time continues to be waged in many different ways. The strategies used by individuals to `heal' the gap between everyday time and life time make everyone a potential rebel offering resistance against the appropriation of time.

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