Introducing the History and Politics of Timekeeping
Clocks shape our lives, from the watches on our wrists, or the alarms on our phones, to the satellites orbiting far above our heads. Clocks tell us when to get up, when to go to work, when to rest, when to eat. Clocks power our GPS, our phones, our banking systems. They fuel global communications and are present during the intimate moments of our lives, timekeeping is utterly embedded into the fabric of our lives to the point where, should clocks suddenly cease functioning, the world as we know it would unravel.