Welcome to The Art of Time Project Journal; a series of writing on various aspects of time, including philosophy, history, politics and much more.

This series is designed as a research archive for The Art of Time Project, but also as an education tool to share knowledge.

If you have any questions, or you would like to co-write a piece with me, please get in touch.

All writing and photography by Kerry Langsdale, unless otherwise specified.

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.  

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