http://prezi.com/nl5tn9exb09k/fast-slow-in-ny/
KERN VAN DEZE PREZI:
- Society vs. individual
- Ideology vs. bodily experience ('real' experience)
- Clocktime vs. freetime (time you are owned vs. time you own / being payed vs. paying)
- External power vs. personal autonomy
QUESTIONS:
How do people experience the here and now in NYC (a city with an 24/7 economy structure)? When do they, why do they and how?
- Why experience here and now?
- How experience fast life?
- How valorize time?
- How divide time?
- What are priorities?
- Experience different temporalities? (clock-time, life time, biological time, everyday time, free time)
- When take breaks? How?
- Breaks from what?
- What do breaks bring to people? What do they gain?
http://prezi.com/mebfch1rmzwv/intro-return-to-your-senses-ny/:
It is only through the senses that someone, or a body can experience the here and now.
ENERGY/INHUMAN ENVIRONMENT
Thus the energy of New Yorkers flows from their fouled air, from their speeded-up pace of life, from panic and asphyxia created by their unimaginably inhuman environment. Baudrillard 103
DISEMBODIMENT
It has often been observed that modern Western society is typified by a certain "disembodied" style of life. (...) A rising interest infinding ways to "return to the body," whether via exercise, hatha yoga, body therapies, craft-work, or intimacy with nature, is but a reaction to this general trend toward a "decorporealized" existence. (Leder 1990: 2 and 3)
VALUATION OF TIME
The appeal of time sovereignty which downshifting represents shows the extent to which time has become invested with value in everyday life. (Craig and Parkins 2006: 45)
COLONIZATION OF BODY BY SPEED
Example slow food:
This 'colonization' of the family, and the body itself, through the impact of speed and busy-ness on the preparation and consumption is central to the Slow Food movement; it is concerned not only with what is eaten but how (where, when, by whom). (Craig and Parkins 2006: 44 & 45)
The dominance of machine time and it's associated instrumentalist emphasis on productivity under industrial capitalism has seen the application of such time management processes not only to business and industry but to areas such as education and household management. (Craig and Parkins 2006: 46)
SLOW=CHOICE, (alienation, stress, desensitization vs. presence, happiness, bodily awareness)
Slowness , then, became recognized and could be redefined as desirable or virtuous quality when it became a choice, rather than the only option, and when speed could be associated with negative charactaristics such as alienation, stress, or desensitizati0n (Nowotny 1994: 14-15). (Craig and Parkins 2006: 42)
ETHICS OF TIME, SPACES OF SLOWNESS
An ethics of time can never have the goal of a singular, shared temporality for all. It is not a case of imposing slowness on everyone, or turning back the clock,
but rather allowing an alternative speed to be possible, to be thinkable, to be do-able; to allow spaces for slowness (to employ a spatial rather than temporal metaphor) in both personal and public domains; to allow time for the other (and time as the other). (Craig and Parkins 2006: 50)
These spaces are concrete. I can look for these spaces.
DIFFERENT TEMPORALITIES
Against such accounts ['verging on a technological determinism (May and Thrift 2001: 10)' by applying a '"time-space compression" theory of postmodernity'], we would favour those which emphasize the differential temporalities of modernity (e.g. Williams 1973; Baudrillard 1987; Osborne 1992; Seremetakis 1994). As Kirstin Ross has argued, modernization may offer "a perfect reconciliation of past and future and in an endless present" but is in fact experienced by subjects as uneven (1995: 11; see also Highmore 2002: 174). (Craig and Parkins 2006: 42) zie verder
LITERATURE
Baudrllard, J.
1993 The fate of energy. In: The transparency of evil: essays on extreme phenomena. translated by James Benedict London & New York: Verso, pp.: 100-105.
Leder, D.
1990 Introduction. In: The absent body. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, pp.: 1-8.
Craig, G. & Parkins, W. (2006) Slow Living. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers.
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