We are again privileged to have a guest post from Kevin Birth, an anthropology professor at Queens College with expertise on the history of time. His other contributions to the ESN blog can be found here and a series on his book “Objects of Time” can be found here. His previous 2016 post on Lent and time is here.
Open up a datebook and day planner, and look at the empty boxes just waiting to be filled. They are all the same size, the same shape, and they convey a sense of time as being made up of containers to be filled. Time management aficionados emphasize scheduling and using those boxes effectively.
It used to be otherwise.
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