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• Title: Time and Space, Calendars and Maps: Constituting Social Being.
• Author : Arena Journal
• Release Date : January 22, 2006
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 218 KB

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The god associated with time was a blood-thirsty savage. Kronos, son of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), castrated his father to become ruler of the universe during the first Golden Age of humanity. This was the age before humans lived in families, generations, tribes or states. (1) The universe went backwards. Humans did not give birth and then in turn die. They came to life autochthonously as the classical Greek concept, and now anthropological term, would have it--out of the earth itself. Kronos is informed by his parents that he will be dethroned by one of his own sons, and so begins devouring his offspring at their birth. His wife moves to save one of their newborn, Zeus. She deceives Kronos with a stone wrapped in baby clothes. Some versions of the myth have Rhea pressing the stone to her breast and her flowing milk creating the stars known as the Milky Way. Zeus grows to godhood and does overthrow his father. In doing so, he sets the clock of mortality, which for the first time allows humans to experience the pain and pleasure of the succession of generations. How different is that sense of cosmological time from the abstracted empty time which obsessed the modern/postmodern world at the end of the second millennium of the Common Era? This was the time of the Y2K global panic, One Minute Bedtime Stories, and machines that measured temporal change in nanoseconds. A hundred years had passed since Guglielmo Marconi had sent the Morse letter 'S' across the Atlantic, and quite new regimes for regulating, exchanging and communicating across time and space were being promoted. On 1 January 2000, a consortium of European and US corporations, the Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG), launched a software system to provide a global web-based standard-time. Supported by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, IMRG proposed a system that overlaid Greenwich Mean Time, and extended the Co-ordinated Universal Time protocol to create what they called Greenwich Electronic Time (GeT). GeT was intended to be a common international standard for electronic communication and commerce. (2) It was aimed squarely at rationalizing and systematizing the global market. Also around the turn of the millennium the idea of a common, global, standard-map based on satellite imaging was being mooted. A commercial satellite called Okonos swept the world, taking spatial photographs with a one-metre resolution. Its digital images were available for sale on the World Wide Web, and such images were being used for global climate-change forecasting relevant to the agricultural futures markets and for selling packages of temporal risk.

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